Word: passion
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Brooklyn-based writer and karaoke obsessive Brian Raftery has written a book about his passion for belting out songs in public. Don't Stop Believing: How Karaoke Conquered the World and Changed My Life follows the hobby from its Japanese origins across the ocean to America and into Raftery's heart. With over ten years of karaoke experience, from the cheaply produced laser discs to live action performances backed by the Georgia-based indie rock group Of Montreal, Raftery has sung it all. TIME talks to him about his obsession, his fondness for an obscure Ghostbuster's II song...
...American soil when she arrived at Harvard in the early 1970s—through three decades on the upper echelon of global economics. And as a top official at the World Bank in this time of economic duress, the Harvard alumna with a reputation for her focus and passion is now working harder than ever...
...Okonjo-Iweala grew up with a passion for geography. According to Onyinye, Okonjo-Iweala initially disliked economics, an aversion that she suggested may stem from the fact that Okonjo-Iweala’s father, Chukaka Okonjo, was an economist...
According to local jokes, you can tell a North Dakotan if he thinks that summer means three months of poor sledding and has a ballistic missile silo in his backyard. Unfortunately, those jokes left out North Dakotans intense passion for hockey.Goal-greedy North Dakota (6-8-1, 4-5-1 WCHA) devastated the Harvard men’s hockey team (4-5-2, 4-3-1 ECAC) Friday night in a 10-1 blowout, breaking the Crimson’s undefeated record at home.“I think that they beat us soundly in every aspect of the game...
...Jews, Paula Fredriksen, a Boston University religion professor and self-proclaimed "Augustinista," upends the received wisdom. Fredriksen is no coddler of anti-Judaism. A former Catholic who long ago converted to Judaism, she was one of Mel Gibson's most acerbic critics when he released his movie The Passion of the Christ. But her book's subtitle, "A Christian Defense of Jews and Judaism," describes what she contends was Augustine's actual stance on the topic, one she says was "was little short of revolutionary" - in a good way. Excerpts from David Van Biema's interview with Fredriksen...