Word: fittingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...heading for is the parking garage under the office building where you work. Riding high feels good. TV commercial actress Lonni Partridge of Manhattan Beach, California, traded her Mercedes sedan for a leased GMC Yukon last week. Her nine-year-old son and his baseball buddies fit better in it. But the high driving position makes Partridge feel more secure: "You don't have all the creeps in vans looking down at you." She feels physically more secure too: "When I drive the Mercedes, I just feel--black Mercedes, blond hair--it's like, 'Hi, here I am, carjack...
...brain's mythopoeic, magic-thinking side is lured to marvels--to alchemy, to spells, to bat people on the moon or aliens on other planets. Can these matters be addressed with a whole mind? Can the two instincts of the brain--Einstein and Elvis-sighting--be made to fit together like compatible spoons...
...religious at Harvard? This is not a facetious question because it's not at all clear how the many religious commitments we each bring to our work here fit into the pedagogies of this university. It's not clear how keeping the faith is even feasible for members of some traditions for whom Harvard has provided no adequate facilities. And the risks of sincere encounter between systems of meaning and value that have so often exploded in violence can seem too high--who wants to replay the age-old patterns of sectarian discord in a Yard rooming group...
...reinstated in 1976, but hours before Guinevere Garcia's scheduled lethal injection, Illinois Governor Jim Edgar commuted her sentence to life in prison without parole. Edgar said he acted not because of Garcia's troubled background but because the case was one in which the punishment did not fit Garcia's 1991 crime of having killed her husband during a botched robbery...
...toll free now: O.J.'s own, never-heard-or-seen-before, for-profit, and unsworn, video explanation of his side of the sensational murder trial. A boycott of the $29.95 tape is already under way, and even O.J.'s interviewer admits some of the celebrity's explanations "may not fit very well...