Word: peps
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...Gore is only one of several significant moves. The easiest, this week's convention, will be over in a flash. In days that some can still recall, national-party conventions witnessed the heaviest lifting; party bosses actually selected the candidates. Today conventions are little more than nationally televised pep rallies, quickly forgotten junkets that can nevertheless doom a candidate's chances if they deteriorate into party-wrecking brawls. The TV exposure routinely provides the ticket a temporary bounce (4 points in the polls, on average), but the lingering memory of an unseemly tussle can cause voters to conclude that...
...like a handbook of traditional Japanese values: a samurai- like loyalty to a master, a quiet and impenitent nationalism, a sense that self is best realized through self-surrender. Many of the scenes -- in which the butler speaks to his father in the third person, talks of "military-style pep talks" to his staff and resolves to practice "bantering" -- might almost be translated from the Japanese. Yet here are all these values, in the midst of an instantly recognizable England, in 1956! The book's author, Kazuo Ishiguro, who moved to England from Nagasaki at the age of five, grew...
Most journalists discover their calling in fairly direct ways: a pep talk from an English teacher, perhaps, or a stint on the high school newspaper. Jim Kelly got the news bug when he was negotiating a treaty on long-range nuclear missiles. It happened when he was an undergraduate at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, preparing to take part in a mock U.S.-Soviet negotiating session on SALT II. "I thought the exercise was pretty silly," says Jim. "Besides, doing the reporting on both sides' positions was more intriguing to me than being part...
After graduating from Princeton in 1977 (and getting his own pep talk from author and former TIME writer John McPhee, with whom he took a journalism class), Jim came to TIME. He started out writing Milestones, where he learned that a life story could be told in a paragraph if necessary. He went on to handle slightly longer pieces in the Nation, World and Press sections, and became World editor in 1988. Last fall Jim was named assistant managing editor, overseeing a variety of sections, including Nation, Law, Education, Books and Interview...
Inspired by Harvard Coach Mike Chasson pep talk on the eve of the last day of competition, the Crimson swept the second event of the day, the 200-yard backstroke. Led by the performance of senior Co-Captain Tom Peterson who registered a 1:44.73 to win the event, Harvard also took second through fourth and eighth in the event...