Word: spirits
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Mets to become top dog. The Yankees pitching staff has aged noticeably and their fielders can hardly run or throw a ball. After this season the team is due for a farm-system overhaul. Whatever the Mets may lack in talent they certainly make up for in spirit. All they need now is a little bit of World Series experience...
...second solution I would put forth would bring together the Harvard community in a spirit of friendly competition. Cashing in on the success of ABC's "Who Wants To Be a Millionaire," we could have a campus-wide search for that special someone who will be our special-teams savior. We could call it "Who Wants To Be a Crimson Placekicker?" and even have a short, annoying man moderate the contests during halftime at home games. With the potential for corporate sponsors, we might be able to also fund spin-offs of our contest to other schools with bad kickers...
...surged into action: helping elderly neighbors with Christmas-tree lights, singing carols at convalescent homes and filming a video to explain the concept. Two rival inner-city schools in New York City joined together to paint a huge mural depicting their ideas. Even a few adults have caught the spirit. After reading the book, Doris Eakes, 62, of North Carolina endowed four small colleges with a $4.2 million trust (expected to grow into more than $20 million in her lifetime...
...capital, after the ferociously destructive civil wars of the 16th century, when Japan was finally stabilized under three successive autocratic warlords. Rather as Italians thought their Renaissance was an upwelling of disciplined classicism--Rome reborn from the ashes of "barbarous" Gothic--so the Kyoto Renaissance strove to recall the spirit of the Japanese past, as far back as the Heian era (794-1185), especially in the domain of writing. It produced an intensely elitist, nobly disciplined and masculine culture whose emblems were the ink brush, the samurai sword and the tea bowl...
Rice has also resorted to some almost comical end-runs around the spirit of the law. The university used to award a yearly scholarship to a Mexican-American student; now it goes to a student who speaks Spanish really well. Admissions officers no longer know an applicant's race. But a new essay question asks about each student's "background" and "cultural traditions." When Rice officials read applications, they look for "diverse life experiences" and what they awkwardly call "overcome students," who have triumphed over hardship...