Word: mined
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...George Steinbrenner with a voice" was the epithet coined by a colleague of mine--born in the baby boom's dead center, it should be noted--who objects to the bad-hair Republican bluster of Sinatra's later years, his belting out of all those anthems of middle-aged self-assertion. He did it his way. He can make it anywhere. He picks himself up and gets back in the race--that's life, or Sinatra's blowhard version of it anyway. It is the artfully projected world view of a casino entertainer, a glorified greeter, whose...
...also aware that this set of circumstances is mine alone, and I know that not one of my friends is in precisely the same position I am. I adamantly refuse to judge their carefully weighed decisions or criticize their value systems. I only wish that others, both here and at home, would do the same...
...really want to do with my music [is]to be able to touch people, to be able to impactthem, to maybe soothe their souls the way mine wassoothed when I wrote [my first real] song," hesays...
President George Bush tapped her to be his secretary of labor, and there Dole had again to be prepared as she was thrown in the middle of a man's world of coal-mine strikes and labor negotiations...
...friend of mine recently told me that to have an impact on the world you have to leave Harvard, at least for a little while. I know she's right. Staying here makes things too comfortable, too easy, and the challenges of the real world are filtered out of most students' lives. Of course, that doesn't make it much easier to say goodbye to friends you've seen virtually every day for the past four years and who, in some cases, may be moving halfway around the world...