Word: friendly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...very unusual person. She's extremely accomplished and yet she doesn't come off that way," said Katherine S. Burke '79-'80, also a Crimson editor and friend of Chira...
...sure about this, Barbara? It sounds terrifying," my friend wrote in an e-mail to me the day before we were to begin our journey...
...saying goes. And indeed I have so much affection for Bob Dylan that I have even found myself revoking, albeit half-kiddingly, new relationships based on the other person's dislike (or at times, dread) for Dylan. But who wouldn't feel inclined to give allegiance to an old friend over a new companion...
...mean that relationships are fictional. Saying that would be stupid, as anyone who has a friend can testify. I don't even mean that friendships should be approached with an acutely self-aware sense of fatalism. Saying that would be unhelpful. I only mean that, for all we say and hope and sometimes try, we drop people from our lives. Something about the way our daily dealings are composed lets them fall away, and allows that to happen without excessive worry or even notice. It could be that the way to know people is to go through them like Kleenex...
...while America has provided little evidence to implicate Idris, the Saudi businessman has commissioned a U.S. investigative firm to support his claim that his plant produced nothing but medicine. Aided by the D.C. law firm Akin, Gump (where President Clinton's friend Vernon Jordan is a partner), Idris won the release of $25 million that Washington seized last August. If Idris sues, he'll face a formidable obstacle: a senior Administration official says the government will argue that its attack is covered by a doctrine of international law known as sovereign immunity and cannot be challenged in court. Disagreement persists...