Word: personal
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...provocative question, as we did in our Person of the Century poll(we are looking for "that person who, for better or worse, most influenced the course of history over the past 100 years"), and you can expect to get a provocative response. The excitement started immediately - and a clear leader emerged. Einstein? Gandhi? JFK? No, Mick Foley. The day after the poll launched, a robot attacked and cast thousands of votes for Foley, a professional wrestler. What is a robot, you ask? Robots, or "'bots," as we call them, are automatic voting programs that come into our web site...
...with the problem of viewing another life and one's own very differently, and whether any life can be expressed as it was really lived. Roquentin wishes for the type of meaning in his own life that one can bestow on another's life after the death of that person, where everything in that person's life can be viewed as following a central design and moving towards a goal. The problem inherent in writing a biography is that any representation of the person's life as leading to a logical goal or conclusion fails to reflect the chaotic, first...
...Clinton] has done a lot for us," said Perri E. Klass '78-'79, Reach Out and Read's medical director. "She's a person of remarkable vision and intelligence...
...number of people we could conceivably be interested in is small, which makes it less likely that the person in any underrepresented group is going to be available at the time you're looking for them," Georgi says. "It's just a matter of small numbers...
...There's definitely explicit condescension," she says. "There's definitely the kind of thing where when you finish talking to the person your heart is in your knees...