Word: walke
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with his wife that he and Winblad can keep one vacation tradition alive. Every spring, as they have for more than a decade, Gates spends a long weekend with Winblad at her beach cottage on the Outer Banks of North Carolina, where they ride dune buggies, hang-glide and walk on the beach. "We can play putt-putt while discussing biotechnology," Gates says. Winblad puts it more grandly. "We share our thoughts about the world and ourselves," she says. "And we marvel about how, as two young overachievers, we began a great adventure on the fringes of a little-known...
...Trey didn't have a lot of confidence in social settings," says his father. "I remember him fretting for two weeks before asking a girl to the prom, then getting turned down. But Mary did. She was a star at social intercourse. She could walk into a room ..." He has the same toothy smile as his son, the same smudgy glasses covering twinkling eyes. But now, for just a moment, he is starting to tear up. His mind does not seem like a computer. He folds his arms across his stomach and starts to rock, gently...
...walk around Cambridge, an atrocity taking place across the globe seems entirely obscure and remote. There are very few Hutu representatives on campus. Nor are there many Tutsis either, for that matter. As a result, the situation of the projected 1.1 million displaced refugees in this region remains Boston Globe front page news--at best. We read the story, sigh, and head straight for the sports, weather, living arts or business sections. After all, this news is important; it will inform us whether to wear a sweater to section, what time to attend a movie or how well our stocks...
...such an irresponsible, self-destructive student demand when there are so many others that are more important? How many Undergraduate Council candidates have to run on a platform of "a lamp in every dorm" before we get some decent lighting? This money should go to programs like Safety Walk and self-defense courses, activities that prevent violence and protect students. On the most basic level, turning the library into a Motel 6 is a case of misplaced priorities...
...three o'clock, as if driven by forces beyond their control, all of Disneyland's inhabitants converged around Main Street, packing themselves five and six deep on the side-walk. Yes, it was time for the "Christmas Fantasy Parade...