Word: becomingness
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He dreaded becoming a prisoner of success, perhaps because it meant he would lose control. "I don't want to attract attention," he said in 1981. "I've always had the fear of being ostentatious of people thinking that these things have gone to my head." He didn't have...
The definition of loyalty is also somebody like Karen Hughes or Karl Rove, who walks in and says you're wrong. I do worry about becoming encapsulated in the presidency if I don't get solid, honest opinions from people.
In fact, in each of the past four years, the number of schools laying claim to Rhodes scholars-elect has met or set an American record, this year with a record spread of 28. At least eight schools have claimed their first Rhodes scholars in this time frame. With college...
2 ROBERT KENNEDY Evan Thomas calls his superb biography "the story of an unpromising boy who died as he was becoming a great man." Bobby's well-documented life and legend are re-examined here with moral clarity, psychological subtlety and a bracing dramatic pace. 3 A HEARTBREAKING WORK OF...
HEPATITIS HOPE Hepatitis C, which afflicts 3 million Americans, is becoming the leading cause of liver cancer and cirrhosis. Today's treatment? Mostly interferon, which is not always effective and has notoriously discomforting side effects like fever, chills, aches and pains. Researchers have developed a modified form of interferon called...