Word: spirits
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...campaign. By Christmas, she and her new charges hope to send enough money to Christian Solidarity to have freed 1,000 Sudanese. While that is but a small number of those believed held in bondage (and the spotlight may raise the price of freedom), it doesn't diminish the spirit of the kids. Says Joshua Hook, 10: "This is a big wrong, and we're helping make it a right." Says classmate Lindy deSpain, 9: "It feels good to know that more people will be coming home for Christmas...
...Hanks is a hero even when he does bad things. In the perky new comedy You've Got Mail, Hanks runs a giant chain that threatens to ruin a children's bookstore run by Meg Ryan; he is Big Business engulfing and devouring the sweet spirit of independence. In the intimate anonymity of a chat room, he carries on an e-mail affair with Ryan and doesn't tell her that her destroyer is her potential beau. At a literary soiree he scoops up all the caviar. Who is this creep? Tom Hanks. And because he is, he must...
...Captain Dale Dye, U.S.M.C. (ret.), senior military adviser on Saving Private Ryan: "The guy could be, should have been, a professional soldier. He has the mind, the motivation, the spirit and the body to make a good officer. He's inquisitive and highly intelligent. Strip away the Hollywood crap and he's like Captain Miller: a common man in uncommon circumstances who rises to uncommon levels...
...JEWEL Spirit (Atlantic) Jewel has come up with a beautifully calibrated set of songs that honors her folk roots but also builds on them, using a framework of light rock that gives her music a robust new feel and builds a bridge to what looks like a bright future for this talented troubadour...
...spirit of holiday shopping, let's consider some 11th-hour tax planning. It won't help you score a Furby for your toddler, but the right financial moves before the end of 1998 will have far more impact on Junior's well-being. The same basic year-end tips tend to get rehashed ad nauseam. So I won't spend a lot of time encouraging you to defer income into next year and accelerate deductions into this year. Ditto for making certain that you use, not lose, any money still in a flexible-spending account at work and for making...