Word: instinctive
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Because what we all really love Matthews for is his popular instinct, in the most original sense. Dave Matthews has redeemed and revitalized the acoustic guitar, rescuing it from the hands of righteous types with causes to push and power-pop ballads in need of authenticity. He has put it center-stage and allowed a kick-ass band to revolve around it. And for that, guitar-strumming college kids and their roommates will be forever grateful...
...state for the Palestinians." Neta, the Simons' 5-year-old, recently asked her mom if the Palestinian gunmen she was watching on TV had children. Orly said they did. "I want to look them in the eyes," said Neta. The way her mother sees it, the child's instinct is not to hate, but to understand...
...without Arafat. But the Palestinian leader may not be strongly inclined to ease the confrontation now, having ridden back to center stage on the recent wave of violence. Turning on the grassroots militants of his own movement in order to enforce a cease-fire may not be his first instinct right now. The rewards - a meeting with Cheney, a starring role at the Arab League summit - may not be enough to persuade him to tempt the wrath of the Palestinian street. Moreover, the Tenet-Mitchell cease-fire formula would require him to disarm the very militias whose actions have helped...
...going to be a very good goalie,” Mazzoleni said. “I really like his competitive instinct...
...found myself, during my visit, fighting an instinct to join in Lowell's boosterism of Father Spagnolia and his crusade. When he held his press conference last Monday to announce that "I have done nothing" and "I demand due process," hundreds of children and adults filled the church pews. The city's mayor, Rita Mercier, a St. Patrick's parishioner, stood by her pastor: "He reminds me of myself. He's a fighter too." "Do you believe him?" my brother Kevin asked me an hour after my two-hour sit-down with Father Spagnolia. "I don't know," I said...