Word: friendship
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...voyage from the Caribbean to the Galapagos and back on a boat manned by cool teachers (John Savage and Caroline Goodall) and a studly, charismatic captain (Jeff Bridges). While learning discipline and the finer points of ocean sailing, they also study their ABCs. And of course, they discover friendship, sex and alcohol. Unfortunately, disaster ensues. A freak storm sinks the boat, killing four, and the coast guard blames the father figure. You can guess what happens next...
...With his dapper dress and trim moustache, the pianist even looks as if he could have stepped out of an F. Scott Fitzgerald story. Suesse is his special passion. At 20 he wrote a fan letter to the aging pianist, then living in Connecticut. Their correspondence blossomed into a friendship, and after hearing a tape of his playing, Suesse invited Mintun to visit her. When she moved to the Virgin Islands in 1975, she gave her protege her scrapbooks, recordings and, at a fraction of its true worth, her Steinway...
Brendan H. Sheehan '96 recalled Piedrahita's wit and intellect, saying he believed Piedrahita had a special affinity for economics, friendship and "sweeping women off their feet...
...another case of a friendship starting through a random e-mail message, Matthew L. Bruce '96 says he and Catherine, a law student in New Zealand, have gotten to know each other after she e-mailed him because his home page on the World Wide Web had caught her attention...
SOMETIMES THE ONLY WAY TO RESTORE a frayed friendship is to pick a fight with a common enemy. When chief of staff Leon Panetta gathered 15 or so of the President's top advisers last week to plan their communications strategy, Topic A was to figure out what message Bill Clinton should convey if, as expected, the stalemate with Republicans over the budget leads to a partial shutdown of the U.S. government this Tuesday. A shutdown, precipitated in part by Clinton's refusal to accept Republican budget priorities, could be a good thing for the President, Panetta and others offered...