Word: friendship
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Connoisseur of Friendship...
Just as important, Jamison wanted to explore the profound influence of powerful feelings on every aspect of life, from work to friendship to love. "Moods make us who we are," she observes. "These tides work on us all the time and leave their traces for good...
...constitute our minds today; they are us, we are designed to steer genes through a technologically primitive social structure. The good news is that doing this job entailed some quite pleasant feelings. Because social cooperation improves the chances of survival, natural selection imbued our minds with an infrastructure for friendship, including affection, gratitude and trust. (In technical terms, this is the machinery for "reciprocal altruism.") And the fact that offspring carry our genes into posterity accounts for the immense joy of parental love...
...evening of their arrival last week, King Hussein of Jordan received Al-Majid's band of fugitives in his palace and granted asylum. Insiders say King Hussein struck up a warm friendship with Hussein Kamel about a year ago when the Iraqi commander underwent surgery in Amman for the removal of a noncancerous brain tumor. The King reportedly visited the hospital nearly every day, and the two hit it off. At the same time, it seems, the invalid's absence from Iraq presented a golden opportunity for Saddam's eldest son, Uday, 33, who has recently ascended in power...
...Hell's Kitchen restaurant, the two spot one of the guards who tormented them and shoot him dead, in full view of other patrons. After their arrest, Michael persuades the D.A.'s office to let him try the case. His superiors, of course, know nothing about his lifelong friendship with the defendants, and Michael does not tell them he plans intentionally to lose the case. Which he does, with the crucial help of a Roman Catholic priest from the old neighborhood, who perjures himself on the witness stand and provides an alibi for Tommy and John on the night...