Word: belief
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Nevertheless, my belief in Boston’s superiority to other Ivy League locations is not, in and of itself, a terribly forceful vote of confidence in the undergraduate education on offer at Harvard. By Thanksgiving of senior year, I really ought to have greater things to be thankful for about having opted to go to Harvard than the fact that it is located not all that far from a number of Loews Movie Theaters, J. Crews and California Pizza Kitchens. The fact that I don’t believe I do is, in fact, extremely depressing. So much...
Shipley, who led a successful campaign to make oral contraceptives free of charge for all women in New Zealand, said that the affirmative action legislation reflects her belief that lawmakers must enact programs that realize the wishes and way of life of the country’s citizens...
...partisan newspaper and jadedly admit that bias is inevitable--c'est la guerre! Boy-Scoutishly, we feel this is wrong, cynical, corruptly Old World. We need a fig leaf. Our news must call itself "unfiltered" or "fair and balanced." It must flatter both our world view and our belief in our fairness...
...First stop: Al-Sa'ah, the famous eatery in the Mansour district, next to the house U.S. forces bombed back in April in the belief that Saddam was hiding there. Happily, the restaurant emerged unscathed. Sa'ah serves pan-style pizzas ($2.50 for a large pie) that have plenty of cheese but seemingly no tomato paste. "This one's too plain," says Sergeant Tolo Gbassage, 23, taking a break from his duties at an American military checkpoint. "They never put enough tomato sauce on these things." But Hamid Abdul Latif, 50, a clerk in the Iraqi Ministry of Justice, appreciates...
...talking heads prayerfully whispered the word “Bronco” as if it might, repeated sufficiently often, summon the ghost of O.J. to inspire Michael to make a break for it, we saw the final nail driven into the coffin of a treasured 21st century orthodoxy: the belief that somehow, after Sept. 11, our media culture had fundamentally changed...