Word: eye
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There were a couple of those schools in the western part of the state that I had my eye on, but on the first day of our trip we ended up in Harvard Yard. My father, who is a Law School alum, said he wanted to come back to campus briefly to see his Alma Mater. Somehow, I was lured to the Yard for a visit before heading off to visit the colleges I actually wanted to attend...
...loose-leaf notebooks on their laps (Tools for Transformation), listening to a young facilitator named Terri explain how TQO works. She is friendly in a robotic way, as if she had taken one of those personal-development courses where they train you to look the other person in the eye when you speak to him and always say his name...
...head writer Michael J. Nelson) and the automatons Tom Servo (operated and voiced by Kevin Murphy) and Crow T. Robot (Beaulieu again) and forced them to watch bad films: Ed Wood classics like Bride of the Monster and stuff way, way worse, like the 1965 Attack of the the Eye Creatures--a movie so inept that its makers put the word the twice in the title. Mike and the 'bots crack wise; we laugh; that's about it. This simple, supple premise allows for pop-cultural japes, low banter and a nice, acidy undertaste...
...Palestinian residents of the camps, "hope had grown gray hairs": hope that they will one day live dignified lives; hope that their children will play and not come home smelling of sewage. It is morally reprehensible to turn a blind eye to this suffering and despair. It is also foolish. These children are the very ones who turn themselves into the human bombs: They have nothing to live for, and there are plenty of zealots who convince them that there is everything to die for. It is not Islam that preaches that message; it is the dehumanizing misery that causes...
...operate very openly with an eye towards direct communication. We're not afraid to bring out into the open an issue that will divide us," Grimmelmann said. "The college administration operates on a consensus system.... When they actually enter a meeting they already know what's going to happen...