Word: personal
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Disposable people, everywhere. Every face I come across is a new possibility, and a sealed certainty. Could we become friends? Perhaps. And if this person should leave my immediate circumstances, could he exit my memory, and I carry on to encounter new possibilities without loss? Definitely. Could I make his remembrance not count? Easily...
...sheer number of people whom a person can meet in one life, and the arbitrariness to the individual people making up that composite number, are overwhelming. There is neither way nor need to lash yourself down to these variables of chance, people...
...very unusual person. She's extremely accomplished and yet she doesn't come off that way," said Katherine S. Burke '79-'80, also a Crimson editor and friend of Chira...
...quite obvious to all of us that of all the very qualified outside candidates, none of them approached his combination of abilities, skills and character that we thought we really need," Cox said. "He's the kind of person who combines the skills and intellectual competence you expect in a university with hands on experience...
Indeed, the only person who seemed surprised by the decision was Hehir, who said yesterday that he had never expected to become the school's permanent head...