Word: yarrow
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...Ohio Northern freshman Breanne. "You go to these stores, and it's all in your face. It's too much." But just as many parents, if not more, go in for the pitch and happily splurge. "This is one of the largest emotional transitions people ever make," says Kit Yarrow, a professor of psychology and business at Golden Gate University in San Francisco. "And shopping is a way to reduce anxiety. People feel in control when they're shopping. It's something we do really well as Americans...
...presidential prospects, John Kerry, who has learned the value of forward observation in war and politics, went on a scouting mission. He and his wife Teresa invited John and Elizabeth Edwards over for an intimate gathering at their Georgetown mansion, along with half a dozen other guests. Peter Yarrow, of the folk-singing group Peter, Paul and Mary and an old Kerry buddy from his Vietnam protest days, was there. And so was Georgia's then Senator Max Cleland, who lost three limbs in that war. Dining just one floor below a collection of Dutch masters and beyond a perfectly...
...when the conversation turned naturally to Vietnam, Edwards could only listen respectfully to the reminiscences of men with lined faces and battle scars. After dinner, Yarrow grabbed a guitar and started a sing-along of his old standards like This Land Is Your Land and If I Had a Hammer, and the potential for embarrassment was high. But Elizabeth knew all the words, and Cleland chimed in with special intensity. When pressed by the table to demonstrate his developing guitar skills, Kerry demurred, and everyone walked away with the picture of a man confident of his instincts...