Word: proof
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Finally, proof of what one has suspected all along: fear, dread, worry, pessimism, anxiety and other neurotic traits are all normal. It's the sanguine, confident people who are the weirdos...
...Comeback Kid," William Jefferson Clinton, is undoubtedly one of the century's greatest politicians. Many were prepared to write his political obituary after the Gingrich Revolution. But Clinton has handled himself with grace and dignity despite constant criticism during his tenure as President. He is proof that character can be shaped not only on a wartime battlefield but in political wars as well. BETH E. CECIL Fort Pierce, Florida...
...friends, they probe each other by habit and inclination, looking for weak spots. Nicholson may have been one of them, and a potentially spectacular one at that. A branch chief in the CIA counterterrorism center, he is the highest ranking agency officer ever charged with espionage. He is also proof of something the intelligence community has long feared and expected: that Aldrich Ames, the career CIA officer and career Soviet spy, wasn't the last of the moles...
...million conventioneers who overwhelmed Las Vegas last week for the annual computer hype-athon known as COMDEX. Teetering local phone systems that tumbled nightly at 7, double-booked hotel rooms and taxi lines that lasted longer than a Siegfried and Roy show seemed much less inconvenient when viewed as proof of the rightness of the computer revolution. Surely, the logic went, this many people can't be wrong. Even the sobering news that cash-starved CompuServe (which carries TIME online) was scrapping its failing Wow service didn't spoil the party. Instead, in lines, bathrooms and at craps tables, conventioneers...
...some. Believe it or not, there are still people out there--in my entryway and yours--that do not participate in intramural sports. In my conversations with them, they cite their workload, or they say the sports don't interest them. Frankly, this is Harvard, and they are living proof that people don't come here to play sports--they come here to think...