The Koziks had finally met the creature they dread above all: the acquaintance-voyeur who can match Nerdman's electronic life to Kozik's earthly one.
The idea was to recruit teachers from among working artists of Duchin's and Lord's acquaintance in New York and match them with schools whose funding for arts education had been cut.
Erikson, who initially made the term "identity" an important concept in his work on psychoanalytic theory and character pathology, referred to W. James by stressing on the importance of the "conscious sense of individual uniqueness", the "I" in its spontaneous, self-evident acquaintance with itself matching the "unconscious striving for a continuity of experience" [ 23], p. 208.
Other names matched local acquaintances of Mr. Wu, including Huang Maosheng, a local businessman who confirmed in a brief phone interview that he had a business relationship with Mr. Wu but declined to elaborate.
But it does a pretty impressive job of putting together lists that match up pretty closely to different groups of real-world friends and acquaintances.
Some, like Laurie Davis of eFlirt, surf clients' online profiles to help them find preliminary online matches, while others, like Sofi Papamarko of Friend of a Friend Matchmaking, work exclusively offline, matching clients with her own acquaintances or other clients.
This week, while witnesses have spoken of vanishing acquaintances and DNA matches to long-buried body parts, Mr. Bulger has kept his head down, scribbling notes like an overeager paralegal.
If all my friends and casual acquaintances start bombarding me with referrals that are not matched to what I need, that could very quickly just become another source of noise I need to filter out.
Their task is a daunting one against the in-form duo of Phil Mickelson and Anthony Kim, while Jim Furyk and Kenny Perry will renew acquaintances in the final match, as will Padraig Harrington and Robert Karlsson – two pairs that played together in yesterday's foursomes.
Moreover, Mr. Ballard's DNA matched the only DNA evidence found at the scene, and he bragged about the crime in a letter to an acquaintance, who notified the authorities.
