Word: exceptionality
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...them was a software millionaire. That was sort of a glamorous thing, except that he was very weird. He was French, and he lived with his mother on the Upper East Side. It was this doorman, glamorous building. He basically proposed to me after four hours. He was desperate - he'd been in a little software cave, I think, for 12 years. He had not come out. And when he came out, he needed to get married quickly. We met in the Barnes & Noble line, and he was just gung ho. And a little crazy...
...dramatic construction of its own,” he claimed. “Perception is in the eye of the beholder, and people perceive me in a way that is not exact match for who I am....I am not the person that they experience in the films, except to the extent that...as an actor, I have experience and intelligence to draw upon.” Although his years in Hollywood may have toughened Ford to the pitfalls and traps of fame, the Chicago-born former carpenter still feels like his job is worthwhile...
...many kids at Harvard are doing many extracurriculars and balancing a thousand things and it’s not that much different except, with my extracurricular, I have to go to New York,” Remele said...
...once the hallmark of Western civilization is gone, replaced by fears of “cultural imperialism” and other such nonsense. Nationalism has been discredited, communism has failed, and religious faith has been publicly ridiculed down to the level of superstition or mental illness, leaving virtually nothing except self-indulgence as a philosophy or a worldview. This purposelessness is the primary cause of Europe’s malaise, and, given the way things have developed, it will be very hard, if not impossible, to combat...
...just a hulking, dilapidated symbol of federal mismanagement. Since it closed in 1996 as the sparkling- and notably smaller-new state-of-the art facility opened across the street (after its own $133 million in cost overruns), virtually nothing has happened with the vacant building, except that taxpayers keep shelling out $2 million each year in "holding costs" to pay for security guards and bare-bones electrical and heating costs. Assorted stakeholders-federal and local government officials, potential private developers and landmark preservation activists-squabble periodically about what should become of the vacant building. Among the proposals bandied about over...