Word: asking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Dostoyevsky's The Brothers Karamozov, Ivan tells his brother that he loves his neighbor, but only from a distance. "For anyone to love a man, he must be hidden, for as soon as he shows his face, love is gone... Beggars should never show themselves, but ask for charity through the newspapers... Children can be loved even at close quarters, even when they are dirty, even when they are ugly...
...dismissal might be considered lifetime imprisonment (but apparently with the slim possibility of parole a.k.a. readmission), expulsion is the equivalent of the death penalty, and they indicate their reluctance to take such final action. We appreciate the somberness with which they approach removing students for good, but again we ask, if not rape, what does it take? Moreover, devastating as it may be to lose one's status as a student of Harvard College, it is not equivalent to being sent to the gas chamber. Life will go on, just not with Harvard's stamp of approval...
...clean guys will want to make the bad guys squirm." And in the G.O.P. it's not just the press they worry about, it's some fellow Republicans, especially those on the Christian right. The Rev. Lou Sheldon, who heads the Traditional Values Coalition, has said he will ask every candidate whether he or she has committed adultery...
...that's easy to explain. Splits naturally occur in the best stocks--the ones that go up. The split signals management confidence, but the heavy lifting is done by management execution that delivers earnings. Do that, and the stock will go up whether it splits or not. Just ask Buffett--whose shares have risen, on average, 28% a year since...
...bird flew over the building, it would not know that anything had changed." If that sounds like pure eco-nut talk (I almost resist noting that McDonough is for the birds), try the question he puts to potential clients when he undertakes any of his architectural projects: "I ask, 'How do we love all children, all species, all time...