Word: obsessions
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...time of great national insecurity, you can always count on Americans to pull together and obsess over a story filled with smiles. Such a placebo was the tale of the septuplets born to beaming Iowa couple Kenny and Bobbi McCaughey. How heartwarming ? only three days old, and they've already accumulated more free gifts than a retiring ball player. At this rate, they'll have enough to pay off their combined college fees...
...about its CEO Bill Gates--the way Patton felt about Rommel. Gates' stock holdings, worth around $32 billion, dwarf Ellison's estimated $7 billion. Ellison, however, insists the fight isn't personal. "I'm more interested in beating Microsoft than I am in beating Bill Gates," he says. "I obsess on the personal computer and the industry, and I would love to see the age of proprietary computers...
...KADLEC, TIME's newest columnist, spent a decade covering Wall Street as a reporter, editor and columnist for USA Today (with a year off to edit the ill-fated St. Louis Sun newspaper and obsess over his beloved Cardinals). Kadlec's Money in Motion column will mix financial advice with stories about the personalities of today's Wall Street, which he describes as somewhat kinder and gentler than in the greed-filled '80s yet "still plenty exciting with the push to be global and America's renewed interest in mutual funds." This week he offers a skeptic's take...
...about when there is a lone soul in a large group who orders a CPK pizza with cheese, while the others asked for cheeseless. They might as well wear a hat on their head which says: "Just eat it!" It is increasingly uncomfortable for those who tend not to obsess over weight and fat to continue in their bliss, for surrounding them are growing masses who stare, assess and analyze every bit of food that enters the mouth. How unfortunate that while our food is being liberated of its fat, we as a people are being enslaved by fat-freedom...
Have we in our 'old age' forgotten the importance of this kind of education and participation in our society? The fact that as Harvard students we obsess over athletics and academics and nothing more seems to indicate so. In order to gain some of the valuable education and experience in life, we need to step outside of the classroom and learn to deal with what happens outside of a lecture hall or a lacrosse field...