Word: persons
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What is something that serves as an emotional need? It depends on the person. For example, expensive athletic shoes like Nikes - the right style or model - are totally superfluous and over-priced, but kids who don't have the right kind of shoe face potential ostracism from their peers. I'm not arguing that everyone should go out and buy their kids $120 Nikes, I'm just saying that there is a social pressure - a sense of need. A kid who has those shoes may feel better about himself than if he didn't have them...
...water before matches. Brad Gilbert is the Bud-guzzling coach who made Agassi a master strategist. There's the childhood best friend/manager, the pastor and the brother who always stuck by him. They are compelling characters. Agassi, however, should have given them florid thank-you notes in person, not on the page...
...First-Year Faculty Dinner has been a tradition at Harvard for many years. The dinner is billed as an excellent opportunity to get to know your professor or TF or preceptor on a more personal level than a 200-person lecture allows. But last night, it appeared that neither the students nor their guests knew quite what to do with themselves when they arrived at the Queen’s Head Pub for the 5 p.m. reception...
...November brings low temperature and swirling winds to the Charles River, the average person might be hesitant to get on the water. But the Harvard sailing team is more than happy to stay on the river for another two weeks...
...What should be clear to any person is that my client is, in the best case, mentally unstable, and believes he has been sent by God. He saw signs, he had dreams, and became motivated to act ... He has many strange theories that were interlinked. It all seemed logical to him." - Adi Keidar, Teitel's attorney. (Jerusalem Post...