Word: yearning
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...both young men began to yearn for jihad. Siddique's cousin Zahid Islam says that while studying at Gujrat Technical College, Siddique would increasingly express concern about the plight of Kashmiris. Mahmood's brother Tahir says he began to hate his job at a clinic, eventually quitting to join Islamic groups. One day, Mahmood asked his family for permission to go to Kashmir. "My father's initial reaction," relates Tahir, a onetime fighter himself, "was neutral?not bad, not good. But later he reckoned (Mahmood) had done the right thing...
...change. Linux is still the preserve of geeks, many of whom showed up last week at LinuxWorld in San Francisco. But some of those geeks have realized there's money to be made from selling user-friendly versions of this powerful and supremely stable software to those who yearn for something better than Windows. Now Wal-Mart's website is selling $299 PCs that run on an operating system called Lindows (Microsoft is suing over the name), while another Linux brand called Lycoris Desktop LX is about to hit the shelves at CompUSA. The ubiquitous Linux logo, a penguin...
...change. Linux is still the preserve of geeks, many of whom showed up last week at LinuxWorld in San Francisco. But some of those geeks have realized there's money to be made from selling user-friendly versions of this powerful and supremely stable software to those who yearn for something better than Windows. Now Wal-Mart's website is selling $299 PCs that run on an operating system called Lindows (Microsoft is suing over the name), while another Linux brand called Lycoris Desktop LX is about to hit the shelves at CompUSA. The ubiquitous Linux logo, a penguin...
...yearn for mass events, and no one has figured out how to create them better than the movies. The movie business, more than ever, is the blockbuster business--the big money is in getting everyone to see your movie in its first week and then feeding them sequels and T shirts and theme-park rides and bonus-packed DVDs as reminiscence. Because there are a limited number of blockbusters a year, they are the only form of entertainment that still seems special...
...will wonder how on earth life could have been so obvious, what the secret was. There probably is no secret, it’s the kind of memory, a memory that plays up more strongly than all the rest, a recollection tinged with melancholy and regret that makes one yearn for those days of freedom...that later become the rythym of life itself, grown-up life...