Word: cool
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...report on the careers and jobs of the future [VISIONS 21, May 22], Tom Peters described his new role model for professional women: the "icon woman." He noted that she does work that is exciting, relevant and, yes, cool. I do that too. I am also an "in your face" adventurer, and I create scintillating projects on the Web. I have a fab personal website. Call me Icon...
Think about it - the PETA protest could be just the first pebble in an avalanche of action against "Survivor" as angry people everywhere find an aspect of the show they don't like. And it might get nasty - after all, if the show's got a cool million to hand out to the last sap left on the island, they can certainly scrape together a handsome out-of-court settlement for some "victim" with restitution on his or her mind. (Too bad they kicked that nice lawyer off the show...
Most people who file pro se--Latin for "in one's own behalf"--do so because they can't afford a lawyer, and the rest just don't want one. "They think it's kind of cool to say, 'I don't need a stupid lawyer,'" says attorney Gay Conroy, who counsels pro se filers in Ventura, Calif. TV shows like Judge Judy and legal websites like Ed Koch's TheLaw.com may embolden people by demystifying the courthouse. And antilawyer sentiment remains as potent as ever. "This is an era of do-it-yourself," says Kathleen Sampson of the American...
...Republican-sponsored plan pulls through, it would eliminate current federal estate taxes. The cost: a cool $105 billion. Repealing the so-called "death tax" has been a critical issue for congressional GOP members, and they insist the expense of this cut would be covered by the polymorphous and always controversial budget "surplus." The Democrats' plan, with a slimmer $22 billion price tag, was geared toward providing "targeted" estate tax relief for family farmers and small business owners. And where would the extra $88 billion provided for in the GOP plan end up? In the bank vaults of America's wealthiest...
...same time, the introspective nature of House life came under sharp attack during the student unrest of the late 1960s and 1970s. House football came to seem somehow unimportant compared to, say, the Vietnam War. To some extent, the Houses helped to cool student passions, but even in those Houses like Dunster that were home to many of the leading radicals on campus, a tension existed between the tenor of House life and the struggles taking place outside the confines of the undergraduate world. "People might go out and parade and counter-parade and then come back and talk...