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Love, the movies tell us, is a grand spur to acheivement. But so is hatred. Give a fellow a good grudge and a thirst for revenge, and he will find his wits sharpened, his energy focused, his ambition liberated from the timid bonds of morality. On this kind of obsession, companies have been built and countries destroyed. It's surely a strong enough motivation for one devilishly clever Polish movie: Krzysztof Kieslowski's Three Colors: White...
...years of study, including the two-year Global Teenager program that employed graduate students from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The OK campaign is only the company's latest effort to extend its dominance over the world teen market: earlier this year, Coke launched its highly successful "Obey Your Thirst" campaign for Sprite, which also pointedly refuses to overpromise by suggesting that the drink will not produce beautiful women or athletic victories but only relieve a dry throat...
...possessed with a thirst for knowledge and had the same intensity in his conversations even then as you find on the lecture podium now," Epps says...
Long before then, Goldstein had been consumed by a love of Israel deeply tainted by a thirst for vengeance. At Yeshiva University in New York City, he was a first-rate student, graduating in 1977 with highest honors and a special prize from his classmates for his character, personality and service. At the same time he was already a devoted adherent of Kahane, whose Jewish Defense League advocated violence against anyone it perceived as a threat to Jews. In a 1981 letter to the editor of the New York Times, Goldstein echoed the rabbi's call for the forcible expulsion...
Admittedly, not even the most rabid sociobiologists contend that babies pop out of the womb with a thirst for bank robbing. Rather, they say, a constellation of influences leads to a life of crime, among them poverty, maleness and a trait known as "impulsivity," presumably caused by bad brain chemistry, caused in turn by bad genes. What, you may ask, is impulsivity? The standard answer tends to involve people who can't control their emotions or who get into bar fights. A study conducted in Finland found that men so characterized tend to be deficient in the brain hormone serotonin...