Word: seems
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Sure, my musings might seem trivial and perhaps even silly, but meeting and noticing and appreciating and making a friend, completely apart from a Harvard extracurricular activity, well, it is a rare moment I cherish. I was made to feel special and valuable. And noticing the brightly beaming smile--one that exuded pure joy--I cannot think of anything I really love more. Since early freshman year, how many such moments have there been...
That imaginary scene does seem farfetched, but it is the kind of thing officials in Washington and other capitals are starting to take seriously. It is very close to what happened to another ex-President, Chile's General Augusto Pinochet Ugarte, in a London hospital in October. Pinochet may end up being shipped off to Spain to stand trial on charges of torture and mass murder. The families of his thousands of victims are rightly cheering, and human-rights activists are delighted that the world may no longer be safe for retired tyrants. But officials in perfectly upstanding governments note...
Elliott was not your garden-variety Citibanker, setting up checking accounts or making business loans. She worked for the vaunted Private Bank, a highly confidential bank within the bank that provides white-glove service to clients with at least $1 million to invest. While this might seem to be an obscure part of Citibank--and indeed it was until just a few years ago--it is now the crown jewel in the financial giant's strategy for growth. That strategy calls for Citibank and its parent, Citigroup, to reduce their reliance on cyclical corporate and real estate lending, which tends...
...Lynch are both pushing products of their own companies. Those I'm-the-wonderful-CEO ads are also justified as being good for the company--at least in the CEO's own swollen head. There has been published speculation that Gates made the golf-club ad in order to seem warmer and cuddlier. This probably isn't true (as his employee, I already find him entirely lovable). But even the notion of making a commercial endorsement as a way of humanizing your image would have seemed, until recently, bizarre...
...have had much military use; they are kawari kabuto, spectacular parade helmets--the ancestors of Darth Vader's mask--worn to impress the living daylights out of commoners. The variety of shapes the helmets came in was mind-boggling. Some of them referred to family crests, but many seem to be sheer fantasy in the form of carps' tails, clamshells, whirlpools, morning glories, fans, bats' ears or crabs. A great example in this show purports to represent a mountain with two valleys, its surface covered with silver leaf, now blackened with age: pure sculpture for the head...