Word: sentimentals
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Lundberg is a rarity: an American in Poland with no Polish roots. A graduate of Wharton and a native of Lexington, Mass., she moved to the country in 1991, not for any sentimental reasons but to become the local head of the Polish-American Enterprise Fund, a U.S. government-backed effort to spawn new businesses in the post-communist nation. "I didn't necessarily make a decision to leave the U.S.," she says, but "I felt that the potential was here [in Poland]." "She's very post-1989," says Ambassador Fried. "There's no sentiment or ethnic ties...
...think it's kind of cool to say, 'I don't need a stupid lawyer,'" says attorney Gay Conroy, who counsels pro se filers in Ventura, Calif. TV shows like Judge Judy and legal websites like Ed Koch's TheLaw.com may embolden people by demystifying the courthouse. And antilawyer sentiment remains as potent as ever. "This is an era of do-it-yourself," says Kathleen Sampson of the American Judicature Society, an organization of judges and lawyers. "It's the Home Depot approach...
...winter of 1998, when the Joshua M. Elster sexual assault case took Harvard by storm, the Coalition Against Sexual Violence was founded as an ad-hoc committee that could respond to and galvanize campus sentiment regarding the attack...
...Much of the current anti-Harvard sentiment in the city derives from University building projects...
...market psychology--now as gloomy as it was bubbly--not much has changed. Sure, short-term interest rates are rising, and dot-bombs are exploding like a string of very expensive firecrackers. But that's been going on for a year. The real explanation is the sharp reversal in sentiment, which is reflected in hundreds, if not thousands, of stocks whose every decline goes a little lower and every bounce falls a little short of full recovery. People buying the dips are getting killed...