Word: stephen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Kohler's collegiate coach, Stephen Locker, thinks so. "He can play in that league, and he can start," he says. "He has the ability--now it's only a matter of proving himself...
...restaurant one night, as he chats over dinner with his attorney, Stephen Neal, the legal Houdini behind his release, Keating confronts naked hostility: a complete stranger, recognizing his craggy features like a ghost from an old "wanted" poster, drops by his table to hurl an unprovoked insult. He's unperturbed. "When I was first brought into the lockup I faced a howling, screaming mob," Keating says matter-of-factly. He points out that unlike other major white-collar felons of the 1980s, who sojourned in comparatively luxurious "Club Feds," he did "hard time." On the inside, he was known...
Indeed, what first strikes an American theatergoer on seeing these plays in London is how much respect they are accorded. Brash young directors like Stephen Daldry and Sam Mendes are busy deconstructing British oldies like An Inspector Calls or finding quirky new takes on Shakespeare. But the directors of these American classics have treated them for the most part with straightforward fidelity. The second thing one notices is how well the British actors handle the American idiom. Aside from an occasional slip--listen for those long e's in been--the American accents are convincing, or at least unobtrusive...
...surprising to find out that beneath that Stephen Hawking-Albert Einstein aura is an ordinary person who is like the rest of us. Gates was a geek in high school who had problems with a parent growing up. He values his close friendships, loves his wife and daughter and protects his privacy. He has amassed a personal fortune and attained the American Dream through his brilliance and hard work. What's wrong with that? All the more power to Gates and Microsoft. I look forward to the cornucopia of new software and gadgets that they will come up with...
...class requires three books: The Language Instinct, Stephen Pinker's bestseller on language called "A brilliant, witty and altogether satisfying book" by the New York Times; "The Story of English," a comprehensive survey of the history of English and a text on dialects...