Word: soberness
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...luxury or romantic dream but as something vital to being alive. McCandless quotes somebody else in the movie: "If just once you put yourself in the most ancient of circumstances ..." This is where nature comes into it--and I think that Eddie and I share this feeling--that every sober-minded person of any belief would probably agree that the biggest issue is quality of life. You've gotta feel your own life to have a quality of life, and our own inauthenticity, our corruptions, get in the way of that. The wilderness is relentlessly authentic...
...opinion of the public that he can't bear to tell it the truth about a war gone sour. Which is why the Democrats in Congress have taken to proposing increasingly radical, if futile measures to begin the end of the war ... and which is why the most sober, prominent Republicans imaginable-- Senators like Dick Lugar and Pete Domenici--have joined the Democrats in calling for a change in policy. Indeed, the President's tragic addiction to broad-brush propaganda prevented him from telling his Cleveland audience the one bit of good news emanating from Iraq in recent months--that...
...claims the territory as an inseparable part of China. Any hint that Taiwan may declare itself a nation on its own - neither part of China nor Chinese - have elicited bellicose threats of military intervention from Beijing in the past. That has been enough to keep populist sentiment in Taiwan sober-minded about separatism. But Chen may have found a new way to insinuate independence back into the public debate. And China is fighting back in a new way - with the help of Taiwan's avowed military defender, the United States...
...claims the territory as an inseparable part of China. Any hint that Taiwan may declare itself a nation on its own - neither part of China nor Chinese - have elicited bellicose threats of military intervention from Beijing in the past. That has been enough to keep populist sentiment in Taiwan sober-minded about separatism. But Chen may have found a new way to insinuate independence back into the public debate. And China is fighting back in a new way - with the help of Taiwan's avowed military defender, the United States...
...playbook. The emotional cost is high. Your life becomes secondary to your work." He doesn't date much. For fun he goes to see the Dodgers or plays video games with his friends. He describes himself as close to both parents today: his father, who is now sober, lives in a teepee in Montana; his mother, not far from him in Tujunga, Calif. "They're old hippies," he says. "They're not really worker bees. They're artists who just didn't have enough bureaucrat in them to get it all wrapped up in a nice little package...