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...hard to break. One of my best friends has become a sort running joke because she just can't help herself--you name it, she's applied. My roommate sent her, as a joke, an "application" to one of our parties this year. Essay question number two: "We relish the exclusion of less worthy individuals. Please explain why we should forfeit the small portion of joy we would obtain in excluding you from our festivities...
...they shake the Super Tuesday confetti out of their shoes, Al Gore and George W. Bush may be tempted to sit back and relish their respective victories over Bill Bradley and John McCain. Their campaign managers, however, are unlikely to allow that sort of idle reflection - the presumptive presidential nominees face a long and trying road to the November elections, and while the urge to take a long nap must be overwhelming, this is the time to take stock and, hopefully, pinpoint a winning strategy...
Like millions of other Iranians, especially young people and women, the President will relish such a result. With his reforms blocked by hard-liners who have stalled reform legislation, shut down newspapers and even jailed the President's allies, he has been losing popularity. Students impatient for more freedom and an end to Islamic codes governing what they wear and how they socialize have dubbed his program "Not Now, Later," and likened him to a henpecked husband afraid to stand up to his wife. "Finally," Reza Khatami told TIME, "all our hopes and goals will be realized...
...trying to learn how to relish the free time that can reinvigorate us and make possible giving fully of ourselves. Actualizing our passions is the most fulfilling thing in the world. We can accomplish the amazing whether at a hospital in Boston or the fields across the river. I look back on semesters of hard work and note great results, but the weeks and meetings blend together. What I'm thinking about now are my relationships with kids and families and volunteers and friends, how much I value them and wish I'd been able to invest more of myself...
...that Eggers has no self-conscious ambivalence left. During the interview he gets a phone call from a bookstore in his hometown asking him to do a reading. He seems rattled. He's doing a book tour but doesn't relish reading the work; in fact, he says he hasn't seen a copy. I tell him I have one. Would he like to see it? "No! I asked them not to send it to me." But then: "Does it look good?" The question will have to wait for the tour, for when his eulogy to his parents rolls...