Word: soulfully
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...haiku competition is on Friday afternoon. I lead off with a favorite: "Eyes locked. Soul kissing./ Exchanging tongues. I awake/ Singing in Spanish." I win the match. Then I win the bout and advance to the next round. Poet after poet takes the mike. Haikus float by like snowflakes--lovely and fleeting, hard to hold onto. I win my second bout, my third, and suddenly it's the final, and I'm still in. My opponent is D.J. Renegade, a wonderful poet from D.C. Best 9 out of 17 will win the title. He offers social consciousness. I counter with...
Finally, the team competition starts. We each get just three minutes onstage. Poetri leads out with Preacher, a soul-stirring pitch against hypocrisy. I'm next. I've never faced a crowd so big. I like it. And they like me. My score of 28.9 pulls us into second place behind New York, where we stay until the last round. Dallas needs a 29.4 to tie. It's not an easy score to get. Backstage we assure one another that we've won second place. Then Dallas sends off a raucous group piece about wanting to be a black...
...contagion" of the Russian ruble collapse--itself tied to the panic that has followed Asia's currency depreciations--has sent off economists and investors for some soul searching about emerging markets. These young tigers do not yet have the kind of social and business structures they need to build stable, prosperous capitalism. The ultimate effect on the U.S. remains to be seen. Ironically, the hit from Russia may free the Federal Reserve to lower U.S. rates, kicking off another round of strong domestic growth...
...lying through his teeth. "Religion and law are fishing at the opposite ends of a continuum," says Skip Masback, a former Washington litigator who is now a Congregational Church minister. "It's not enough for religion to say, 'Just be technically accurate,' for in the depths of the soul, dissembling just doesn...
...tragic figure because his energy and charm were destined to be played out in an arena where conflicting behavior was condemned as hypocrisy. Clinton's is a tragic figure because he is not condemned by the congregation and so must live with hypocrisy in his soul, and in its purest form, as self-deception...