Word: sympatico
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WASHINGTON: On the Internet, Goliath crushed David. But when Bill Gates went head-to-head with Netscape CEO Jim Barksdale before the Senate Judiciary Committee, the little guy -- aided by a gang of sympatico senators -- was finally able to get a slingshot in. Kicking off the hearings in a basketball-court-sized room, Sen. Orrin Hatch called for a fair fight. "Neither this hearing, nor any aspect of this committee's inquiry, are intended to serve as an arena for attacking any single company," he said...
...haven't seen. At the same time, box-office success does not always guarantee merchandising success--analysts cite Casper and Independence Day as two recent hit movies that disappointed their licensees. Much depends on how "toyetic" a movie is, in industry parlance, and the degree to which merchandise is sympatico with the film. Flipper licensed a camping set, "which is pretty funny," says director Shapiro, "because dolphins aren't usually found in the forest...
...with who went to women's colleges at that time. Recently, I had dinner at the White House and I met Hillary Clinton and I thought, "There's a woman who went to Wellesley in the late 1960s, I get it." There's an earnestness, a sense of sympatico, a generation who sort of defines how you see things...
Clark is strict but sympatico. "We're making up for all that they didn't learn on the reservation," he says. "But they learn fast." The curriculum at the academy, which includes four years of a foreign language, is considerably more rigorous than that of public schools on the reservation. Clark says that when the students arrive at school, fresh off the reservation, they are often shamed by their lack of education and are painfully reticent. "Every year," says Clark, "we get students who are at fourth- or fifth- grade reading levels...
...obvious. Not particularly interested in the suburban soap-opera life of America or the decaying, over-exploited one of Europe, he has taken to the more exotic of the world's climates and locales. From the chatter and odor of the Howrah station in Calcutta to the more sympatico setting of Costa Rica, Theroux finds himself obsessed with a world beyond the borders of affluence and gratuitous soul-searchings. His proposition is pretty much a remedy for boredom--his own, and that of us who bother to take the train-rides with him. For what Paul Theroux writes about...