Word: imprints
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Electronic games like Pac-Man, Tetris, Doom and Myst are the totems of a generation and have etched an indelible imprint on the American psyche. Or so J.C. Herz, the 25-year-old author of Joystick Nation (Little, Brown; 230 pages; $23.95), would have her readers believe. For as Herz sees it, video games aren't just kid stuff; they are "theme parks of the mind" that reflect the fears, fantasies and desires lurking in every human soul...
Over the past four years, Boyda has followed one tradition without fail--he always marks the ball the same way, with one dot above the 'Titleist' logo and one below. But golf has also left a lasting imprint on both players, carrying them through the bumps of a season toward the arc of their future...
Harvard life outside the classroom is certainly very enriching. When I look back on my time here, my extracurricular memories will no doubt leave a more vivid imprint on my mind than will a great section leader. And I would argue that I learned just as much, if not more, from my experience with student organizations as I did from my professors...
...step that followed a nearly unanimous vote in both houses of Congress. The Chinese were stunned by what appeared to be a departure from the U.S. policy of not having official contacts with Taiwan. "The Lee visit was a failure of their own guys to make an imprint [in Washington]," says James Lilley, who was U.S. Ambassador to China under George Bush. "So their bosses told them to get off their asses and start moving...
...Mondale and Dukakis campaigns were welcome intermissions from the classroom, in which she served as a foreign policy adviser and broadened her connections in the party. But there were three other critically important training outlets as well, whose imprint would become more apparent as she moved closer to the prize. The first was the Georgetown Leadership Seminar, an invention of Henry Kissinger's back when he was an ambitious young Harvard professor trying to make connections with up-and-comers around the world. Each summer about 75 government officials, lawyers, bankers, journalists and military officers from all over the world...