Word: passion
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...WORD, TWO MEANINGS. MOMENT AS IN MOMENTARY, AN EVENT OR PASSION that is here, now, quick--then gone. Bush's last press conference, Madoff's comeuppance, a presidential puppy, Tiger's bad lie. Steroid scandals, swine-flu panics, airplane pilots good and bad. Already these fragments have the memorial feeling of snapshots in an old shoe box. But the other meaning is moment as in momentous, things that mattered in some lasting way, images destined not for shoe boxes but for history books. A year that dawned to the chime of change soon got bogged down in intractable troubles...
...announce that Nicaragua will be home to the International Baseball Association's first baseball academy in Central America. Smith, longtime player who has since coached Team USA baseball teams, said the association considered locations in Guatemala and Costa Rica but decided on Nicaragua because "here they have the passion and a natural talent for the game, and we won't be competing with soccer...
Complexity is the mode of the second author, Theodore Roosevelt Malloch, whose book Thrift: Rebirth of a Forgotten Virtue may be tough sledding for the non-Ph.D. reader. Malloch, who has held positions at the U.N., the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations and the State Department, writes with passion in an ambitiously academic style. He examines the history of the concept of thrift--the root of the word is an Old Norse verb meaning "to thrive"--citing the contributions of the Scots and Calvinists. Malloch, like Farrell, considers frugality a moral imperative as well as an economic necessity. "Thrift...
...Habashy, a native of Cairo, says that growing up in a family of antique collectors and art enthusiasts nurtured her passion for aesthetic expression. Although her family has mostly been involved in politics, her experiences travelling the globe have fostered an appreciation for fashion in all forms...
...said Her Campus has exposed her to a new level of knowledge in accounting, law, and marketing. Her previous experience in marketing was as the executive editor at Freeze magazine, where she started the Mr. Harvard Freshman contest. She explained that this marketing experience helped her see that her passion lay in business, a realization that lay the groundwork for the direction she is taking today...