Word: self
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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According to Choi, student groups can also apply for grants from Princeton's academic departments and the dean's office, but most organizations are self-funded--either from membership fees, alumni donations, or other revenues...
...stretched himself so thin to span the issues that his support tends to be shallow; voters who like him often can't say why. But if his ideology--a dab of conservatism here, a touch of moderation there--remains difficult to pin down, that is precisely the idea. His self-styled New Republican approach continues to draw supporters from across his party's ideological spectrum. By emphasizing issues like education, for example, Bush is attracting women voters at levels other Republicans can only envy. He is even winning favorable reviews from a majority of moderate and conservative Democrats, according...
Despite succeeding years of more successful but unavoidably devastating surgeries, permanent paralysis of my legs and a nonstop assault of spinal pain, I've experienced no similar encounter. That fact tends to validate, for me, an objective core to the experience. If I manufactured one visionary self-consolation, why wouldn't I have repeated that solace in ensuing years of even worse trouble? In any case, to the surprise of my doctors, I've survived without apparent return of the cancer, and my life is more rewarding and productive than before that washing in Galilee. My lifelong sense that Jesus...
...left out, so filmmakers green-lighted Good Will Hunting, in which Matt Damon, who does watch TV, makes it sexy to be a number cruncher. (The sexy image was reversed--for the few bohemians who saw it--by the 1998 art-house flick [pi], the story of a psychotic, self-mutilating mathematician who discovers a very big number that holds the secrets of the universe.) Books on mathematics, such as Fermat's Enigma and A Beautiful Mind, the tale of a schizophrenic mathematical economist who wins the Nobel Prize, hit best-seller lists here and abroad. (I came to appreciate...
...clinch rather than throwing punches. Although the repeated challenges about his experience in governing and foreign policy had Bush testily chanting phrases from his stump speech, his opponents failed to provoke either a gaffe or a temperamental outburst. Meanhile, McCain deflected jabs about his reported temper with humorous, self-deprecating quips ("You know, a comment like that really makes me mad.") Outside the arena, the news for Bush was less good. Although Bush has reined in a lot of McCain's lead, his hopes of winning the New Hampshire primary took a hit Thursday when the Manchester Union Leader...