Word: pureness
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...week later. Yet, he did not return. Instead, week after week, we stared at the yellow “dorm crew was here” slip on our mirror hoping that someone from dorm crew would soon appear to rescue our bathroom from its ever-so-ungracious disintegration into pure filth. Finally, after over a month without service, one roommate called the dorm crew office, and the next day a student came to clean. His service restored our bathroom’s porcelain white sinks and clean floors...
...think it’s pure and simple accountability,” he says. “Back in June, it was ‘I just need a few more weeks,’ and it was five months...
...That's the point the skeptics miss: Unlike pure telecom companies, Hutchison Whampoa does not need its 3G business to be successful immediately. It can afford to subsidize Hutchison 3G heavily, for as long as management continues to believe 3G will ultimately pay off. Li, one of the richest men in the world (with an estimated net worth of $10 billion), is not one to throw good money after bad. He has frequently stated that not getting too attached to any investment is one of the greatest psychological edges he has. "He is very pragmatic and unsentimental," says Ingelbrecht...
...filming of Halle Berry's homage to Ursula Andress in 1962's Dr. No, emerging from the sea in a bikini. The water was frigid. Screenwriter Robert Wade turned to me as Berry came out for the last time and said, in that loaded way that is pure Bond, 'She suffered...
...writers, like prophets, are sometimes dishonored in their own countries. So it is with Murakami. He is commercially successful. That can be a curse in Japan, where the literati distinguish condescendingly between "pure" literature and fiction for the masses. Highbrow novelists compete for the tony Akutagawa Prize. Their down-market brethren wrestle over the Naoki Prize. Murakami, 53, has won neither (he has garnered lesser awards, including the Gunzo for debut novels.) "Murakami's work is in-between," explains Mitsuyoshi Numano, a literature professor at the University of Tokyo. "If a writer pursues high-quality literature, the book doesn...