Word: soul
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Summing up my feelings a few years ago, I said, "Gradually the College came to seem challenging rather than intimidating, mind-stretching rather than soul-numbing, an intellectual carnival rather than a solemn observance of eternal truths." I add--and would be surprised if my classmates did not agree--that the Harvard experience became a way of seeing, a way of thinking, a way of feeling, that would somehow touch and shape almost everything we would do thereafter...
...fears were magnified when she found a letter alluding to that July day. "I want to spend the rest of my life beside you, walking through life hand in hand," Kelly wrote to Marc. She even enclosed a picture taken the next morning, July 4. "You have my heart, soul, mind and body...you are my soul mate. You make me whole." Flinn explains that the love notes were a signal of her affection for Marc--a signal that he demanded in exchange for his own sentiments...
...occurred during negotiations between the companies in 1990 and '91. Intel was then considering licensing Alpha technology for its next-generation chip; after both companies signed a confidentiality agreement, Dig- gital revealed the Alpha design. But the talks fell apart, and Pentium, sans Alpha, went on to become the soul...
BOOKS . . . NEWS OF A KIDNAPPING: The imps of literary happenstance could not have done better than ?News of a Kidnapping? (Knopf; 291 pages; $25), writes TIME Critic R.Z. Sheppard. It brings together the world?s two best-known Colombians, symbolically locked in a struggle for their nation?s soul. The first is the book?s author, Gabriel Garc?a M?rquez, Nobel prizewinner and one of the greatest living storytellers. The other is the late Pablo Escobar, once head of the Medell?n drug cartel and a terrorist responsible for hundreds of violent deaths. These two men, who achieved international fame and fortune...
...There seems to be a lot of disaffection at the CIA, a sclerotic bureaucracy, as the author tells it, lacking in clear purpose and shaken by its own incompetence. Truell's newspaper is tottering as well; its traditions, which date from a time when a newspaper could be the soul of a city, are far more solid than its finances. Good reporters are quitting. The publisher, a decent fellow in a shameful squeeze, is talking with secretive offshore moneymen...