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...cheek, are usually few in number—people are interested in “skiing and sailing,” for instance, or in “being a style icon.” We throw ourselves into a few activities with the sort of self-immolating vigor that I bring to dancing to “Graceland.” Academia itself encourages a sort of tunnel vision; incapable of tackling entire movements or schools of thought, we write papers and theses on absurdly narrow topics. In his short story “The Christian Roommates...
...wakeup time of their high school years, the typical first-year is like a kid in a candy store. He or she has no curfew, dozens of new best friends, and of course, there’s no teacher calling attendance in the morning. To capture the freshness and vigor of this short-lived epoch in a Harvard life, FM visited with a typical entryway that, according to residents, never sleeps...
...BEGAN YOUR CAMPAIGN BY APOLOGIZING FOR THE SOCIALIST GOVERNMENT'S RECENT MISTAKES. WHY? I'm very proud of what the government has done. We focused on becoming part of the euro, developing infrastructure, strengthening the economy. However, there were other priorities that we did not address with the same vigor. What I'm saying now is, let's talk about fighting unemployment, fighting corruption and encouraging a participatory democracy. IS ANTI-AMERICANISM STILL THRIVING IN GREECE? It has its peaks and valleys. Obviously, the war in Iraq was one of the peaks. Anti-Americanism [has to do] with U.S. policies...
...wonder lovers talk all night or walk till dawn, write extravagant poetry and self-revealing e-mails, cross continents or oceans to hug for just a weekend, change jobs or lifestyles, even die for one another. Drenched in chemicals that bestow focus, stamina and vigor, and driven by the motivating engine of the brain, lovers succumb to a Herculean courting urge...
This is not to say that Kerry will stage a remarkable comeback. He has dithered too publicly about the war in Iraq. Even on his very best days, he lacks Dean's vigor and electricity. But if the Democrats do mount a successful populist campaign against Bush, it will have to be sunny and sophisticated, with the anger carefully rationed. In other words, it will contain, as Kerry's stump speech now does, equal quantities of those eternal military-marching properties--polish and spit. If the nominee is Howard Dean, he'll have to work on the polish...