Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...problem with life in the fast lane is that it might get us to the end sooner than we imagine. I recognize this tendency in my life, and want to change it. So I'm letting those textbooks sit a while longer. And I refuse to set my alarm on Saturday morning...
...sophisticated, tactical mind. William Allen White said that Roosevelt "thought with his hips"--an apercu that might better be applied to Ronald Reagan, whose intelligence was intuitive, and even to Franklin Roosevelt, who never approached "Cousin Theodore" in smarts. White probably meant that T.R.'s mental processor moved so fast as to fuse thought and action...
Twenty-one years ago, the writer Ved Mehta spoke to one of Gandhi's leading political associates, a former Governor-General of independent India, C. Rajagopalachari. His verdict on Gandhi's legacy is disenchanted, but in today's India, on the fast track to free-market capitalism, it still rings true: "The glamour of modern technology, money and power is so seductive that no one--I mean no one--can resist it. The handful of Gandhians who still believe in his philosophy of a simple life in a simple society are mostly cranks...
l932 Mohandas Gandhi announces he will fast unto death for India's untouchables...
...Fast forward instead for a flick that's not so much concerned with history as it is the mystery of the human heart, Jordan's 'The Crying Game'. See it again to realize what a fantastic film this is, especially now that you aren't spending the first half wondering what 'The Secret' could possibly be, and remember this: Pre-'Stargate', we all marveled at Jaye Davidson's talent...