Word: folder
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Recycle Bin to trash unwanted files. Your eyes are drawn to a fat Start button, as luminescent as a hard candy, that opens the Start Menu, the key to everything on your computer. The menu is arranged sensibly, with frequently used programs grouped on the left and file folders (organized by media type--text, pictures, etc.), settings, search and other utilities on the right. You can still drag favorite programs onto the desktop screen. But in a kind of Keep Your Desktop Beautiful campaign, XP notes how often you use them and offers a cleanup option that sweeps little-used...
...rimmed glasses - one of the few pairs of glasses I saw on this trip - as he runs through the various sultanates that existed in the 16th and 17th centuries, the various colonial dealings of the 18th and 19th and the upheavals of the 20th. Pulling out a tattered pink folder, leaning forward, he describes his ongoing campaign to regain for local Malays the right to cultivate land held by the government. Back in the sultanate days, it was called tanah ulayat, communal land, and that's what he thinks it should be now. His group is called People in Waiting...
...Making a mental note to write up my brain for insubordination when this is all over, I file away this latest round of rational thought in the folder marked "worthless" and once again review my four main options...
First thing first-ditch the folder. Harvard Yard’s easy enough to figure out, especially with the signs posted by every extracurricular activity at Harvard pointing you in the direction of various buildings...
...keep Mike’s writings in a folder in my desk, and every so often I pull them out and flip through their now-tattered and dog-eared pages. Each time, I am impressed by the brilliance and clarity of his voice and saddened by his premature demise. We have lost Mike and the great things he would undoubtedly have achieved. This is the incalculable, incomprehensible cost of a world that teaches people to be normal or to be silent...