Word: mined
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...must protect one of the great quirks of being American: the ability to enter the hallowed halls of Congress or the memorials to Washington, Lincoln, Roosevelt or war veterans without hassles, dress codes or security checks and say, "I own a part of this place. It is mine." One might argue that these are just the necessary steps to ensure everyone's safety--whatever distance must come between President and citizen, the rationale would go, is for their mutual benefit. But it seems that America may be losing that irrational, incredible feel of ownership unnecessarily...
Surely there are soldiers with very powerful-looking guns, who spend their spare time digging through the neighborhood trash cans (including at times mine) to see if anyone has left a bomb. But they have not cordoned off the area just in case; they will take the risk and not take away the chance for the Prime Minister to live on a street just like any other Israeli, with neighbors, music, buses and a grocery store around the corner...
...gaining a new perspective on personal evolution. It was both refreshing and daunting to realize that I ate, lived and earned money all by my own effort. Yes, there were school and family safety nets involved, but the opportunity to spread my wings and falter along the way was mine...
...strictly a routing and administrative function that allows people to find your site--it's worth a try. My friend Jeff Pulver, who has a T1 line that connects his home to the Internet at 1.5 million bits per second, agreed to host quittner.com And now it's mine. Of course, I'd be happy to sell it to you--consider it a steal at $1 million...
Hytner, the first of this generation of Brit boy-wonder directors, says he wouldn't have done Carousel or Twelfth Night without Crowley. "Bob's aesthetic is mine as well: that a theater world should be poetic, a world of the imagination; that it should be hospitable to actors; that it should be bold in the use of colors." That would account for the glorious pools, and the pathways that slide together at the end to bring the lovers together. As Hytner says, "We are also both totally shameless about feeling that now and then you have to give...