Word: gift
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...This flashback is dedicated to FM's full-color Holiday Gift Guide...
...Fish bowl, former home to PTF (Patrick the Fish). Managing Editor Georgia N. Alexakis brought about the demise of this goldfish (a gift from her predecessor Andrew S. Chang) when she filled his bowl with cold, instead of lukewarm, water. GNA later replaced PTF with Andy and Warhol, named in FM's honor, but they died...
...faith. When Harvard's early acceptance letters arrive in mailboxes across the country this weekend, their contents will immediately provide students with independence, whether to come here or to wait and see what their other options are. Acceptance to Harvard--or to any college--is an accomplishment and a gift, but the choice of what to do with that acceptance is the best gift...
...about character and biography and that McCain's, at the moment, is a best seller. It is not just that McCain's story defines the man: You cannot scare me, I've been scared by professionals, and I have nothing to lose because every day is a gift I once thought I'd never have...
...Green Mile, reverently taken from King's serialized novel. It's 1935, and we're on a Southern prison's death row, where the only recreation is watching a mouse commandeer the corridor. Enter a new inmate, John Coffey (Michael Clarke Duncan), a giant black man with a gift of preternatural empathy; he can literally suck the pain out of people. Paul Edgecomb (Tom Hanks), the chief guard of E Block, is in awe of this white magic. He benefits from it, uses it to help a friend and, eventually, pays...