Word: wondrousness
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...argue this as a wondrous stimulation and expansion of democracy. On the other hand, the hair-trigger modem, wired directly to the adrenal glands and needing only a finger twitch to hit SEND, encourages a certain violence of opinion--impulsiveness that hardens more quickly than before into dogmatism. Once you've sent it, you're committed to it; you've got to defend it. On almost any subject--gay scoutmasters, say, or capital punishment or abortion--Americans tend to accelerate at unnatural speeds toward absolutes and sort themselves into fierce tribes to defend the absolute they've chosen...
...OLYMPICS require a well-trained team of journalists to cover them, and TIME has been preparing for the spectacular in Sydney for more than a year. In this issue we preview the wondrous global athletes that will command the planet's attention as the pageantry unfurls. "The Olympics celebrate competitors from every part of the world," says Bill Saporito, who edits TIME's business and sport sections; he has also covered three soccer World Cups. "This week readers are going to meet a group of incredible athletes...
...locales got me to thinking. When summer hits like a gust of fresh air after the academic year ends, Harvard students scatter to all ends of the world to work at prestigious, high-powered jobs and internships. From Shanghai to Paris to New Delhi, they send back tales of wondrous sights and tremendous opportunities. The future politicians and policy analysts go down to Washington, D.C., to learn their way around Capitol Hill and the White House. Those interested in mergers and acquisitions find themselves plum positions with prominent Wall Street firms. The techies migrate towards Silicon Valley, visions of being...
Mine was called Palm VII and was to me wondrous and magic. But William of Redmond, who ruled all the land west of the Potomac and was greatly rich, became vexed that others made money and brought forth his own PDA, which he called Palm Pilot Killer. And his riches increased, though he still would not employ skilled workers to cut his hair...
...Monday, it was a letter of support signed by Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter and George Bush the elder, and a grave nod from Alan Greenspan. Tuesday it was Carter, Ford, Henry Kissinger and James Baker alongside Clinton and Gore in an East Room press-fest to tout the wondrous effects free trade will have on the Big Red One - and on American business. Democratization, capitalization, improved human rights in China, more jobs and less trade deficit for the U.S.: All the rosiest outlooks were on display, including the one about how a few decades of free trade could very well...