Word: ideas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Others might name the virus as "ambition." I think it's more than that. It's the idea that life is a track; that every significant endeavor somehow has to be reduced to being a jumping-off point for the next, better endeavor; that things do not happen to us through luck or exceptional vision or untutored talent but rather through a series of well-calculated moves; that "successful" is something we will become in the future, not something we can be right now. And it's the idea that a career is something that already exists, that finding...
...planning Jiang's visit. All went smoothly: the press got great photos of Jiang (behind ye old Harvard motto) and the lovely protesters in their monk robes and specialized t-shirts. It all seemed like such a perfectly organized circus to us that Jiang might take the idea back to his own military state. The message for the next Communist Party convention? If you can manipulate and manage dissent so as not to have it taken seriously, why bother shooting...
Rather than trying to generate sympathy for his characters, he introduces an ugly mode of black humor that mocks the dead and dying to such a degree that the audience feels too much disgust to get riled up about HMO policies. The black humor itself isn't a bad idea; it is often a key and telling element of good satire. But Lumet has shot himself in the foot by making the humor too universal--if you show disdain for doctors, patients, bereaved family members, athiests, the strongly religious, HMOs and insurance companies, there isn't really anyone left...
...idea] seems like a good idea, but I'm not so sure about putting so much emphasis on the zero to three years, I think that people have the ability to overcome and create their own destinies," said...
WASHINGTON: Sober, scientific Occidental medicine has always been a little condescending toward the mysteries of the East. Acupuncture, the idea that the body-wide insertion of long thin metal needles can ease pain, is no exception...