Word: aims
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...admit, in spite of all that carping, this album put a smile on my face. But it also made me reach for my CD collection and look for the originals. If the bands' aim was exposure, as the addresses of their record companies in the liner notes seems to indicate, a better strategy might have been to distinguish themselves and not parrot the originals--the ready-made market for '80s nostalgia would mean they would have gotten heard anyway. As it stands, however, In Their Eyes comes across as an album trying to ride on the coattails...
...Their aim: overthrow Saddam Hussein. "We thought we were writing the history of Iraq," recalls Allawi, who bristled with adrenaline as the fighters overran three Iraqi positions. "But what happened later showed we were totally wrong...
...trying to take away meaning, tell students it's all meaningless"--thus producing that "gnome" effect--simply isn't true. A small fraction of our humanities classes deal with literature produced in the second half of this century, much of which has come to be labeled "postmodern." The aim of these classes, like any others, is to give students a way of understanding and appreciating the material. Paglia's previous attacks on specific Harvard professors are particularly misdirected. Is anyone else willing to make the ridiculous claim that Porter University Professor Helen H. Vendler, who has devoted her life...
...just didn't compute. If Boies' aim in showing the video was to cast doubt on Gates' credibility, he seems to have hit the mark. (At one point, Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson chuckled over a particularly blatant Gates evasion.) And there is no question that tearing down the defendant company's CEO is shrewd trial strategy. "It's damaging from a legal point of view when you have a judge hear a boss get up and lie," notes D.C. antitrust lawyer Donald Falk. "It may lead the judge to disbelieve the company's other rationalizations...
While visiting the desert metropolis of Las Vegas for a weekend, I was appalled by the amount of money being blown by casino owners like Steve Wynn who aim to duplicate the world's most famous locales [SHOW BUSINESS, Oct. 26]. I've been going to Vegas for more than 30 years, and I think guys like Wynn have gone too far. It is ludicrous to create billion-dollar facsimiles of famous places. I predict this attempt to attract baby boomers like me will fail miserably. MARK THOMAS Oakland, Calif...