Word: passional
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Hazel Poole's arthritis became so painful six years ago that she could no longer indulge her passion for embroidering. But she could still type. So Poole, now 100 and living in a Delaware retirement home, launched an online news service dedicated to the kind of fancy stitchwork that had earned her so many prizes over the years...
...insist upon credit for the accomplishment. There is wisdom here and not the kind usually found in those books on business leadership that proliferate in airport bookstalls. A wimp or a wuss will not do, and mere popularity and likeability are thin gruel for an effective presidency. Intellectual passion moral vision, and the ability to recognize and support excellence in other are among the qualities to be most desired in a president of Harvard. A becoming modesty and a sense of humor, if not irony, also will not go amiss. Mere charm we can do without, but humanity and civility...
...into a dark wonderland of fierce and magical creatures that offers escape to an 11-year-old girl on the cusp of puberty and despair. Each film toys with the implausible but creates a movie world that is both coherent and compelling --a testament to their directors' passion, craft and gigantic nerve...
...This is no desultory passion play. Even a non-religious foreign observer cannot fail to be moved by the intensity of faith that courses through the tiny room, a collective surge of emotion connecting today's Shi'ites with the events that marked their division from Sunnis and centuries of persecution, warfare and sectarianism. It is a powerful ritual of Shi'ite unity - one that the Sunni Taliban leadership attempted to curtail during their reign in Kabul...
Leathers, whose boyhood passion for multistory treehouses led him to become an architect, stumbled into the swing-and-slide business in 1970, when he helped build a play area for his children's school in Ithaca, N.Y. That effort took 15 weekends, but the community spirit engendered by the all-volunteer project exhilarated Leathers so much that he made it a specialty of his practice. Today six of his associates work fulltime on designing and building playgrounds, which generally go up in four or five days and cost anywhere from $2,500 to $45,000, about one-third the usual...