Word: awakened
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Participants in Harvard's vast array of ethnic performing groups, which range from the Kuumba Singers to the South Asian Dance Organization, say their groups serve to educate and awaken the campus community in non-traditional ways...
...Shinrikyo's lawyers were in full cry. On Tuesday Asahara had released two radio messages through intermediaries. In one he repeated, "I didn't do it. I'm innocent" over and over again in a singsong voice. In the other he exhorted, "Disciples, the time to awaken and help me is upon you. Let's carry out the salvation plan and face death without regrets." His attorney was less cosmic in his approach. Maintained Yoshinobu Aoyama: "We practice our religion on the basis of Buddhist doctrines such as no killing, so it is impossible that we are responsible...
...life, and one that faces us daily in the office, the bedroom, even the income tax form we sign: What to do with the person who opposes us? We know, more or less, how to deal with our friends, but what to do with those who tempt us to awaken the devil in ourselves (a far more pernicious temptation than any external devil affords)? Many religions counsel us to forgive those who trespass against us and to extend charity even to the Jeffrey Dahmers of the world; Buddhists actually argue that our enemies are our best friends because they challenge...
...with Congress, but in eastern Washington, voters enjoy the unique ability to fire the guy who runs the place. No House Speaker has lost an election since the eve of the Civil War, and the parade of national-news reporters trooping around from Walla Walla to Spokane has helped awaken voters to the scent of history in the offing. Having suffered the second-worst showing of his 16 congressional campaigns during the September primary voting, Foley finds himself in the toughest race of his career. Yet only recently has he begun to campaign in earnest, mounting an uncharacteristically aggressive attack...
...which we do not have, and have never had. But even had Guinier been permitted to take up the position to which she was appointed, the power actually to affect such systemic change would never have been hers. The power she would have had, however, would have been to awaken the public to the idea that dominatesThe Tyranny of the Majority."Voting is not just about winning elections. People participate in politics to have their ideas and interests represented, not just to win contested seats...