Word: dares
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...that respect, Winfrey's events might even be - dare it be said - counterproductive...
...already fraught situation to deteriorate any further. Wiam Wahhab, a senior opposition figure, told TIME that opposition supporters were prepared to take to the streets if the March 14 block attempts a unilateral move on the presidency, but doubted such an outcome. "I don't think they will dare try this, unless the Americans have a benefit from it in which case we will have another problem," he said...
...course, an absurdity. No Australian would waste time watching a football match in which nobody was better than anyone else, or a horse race in which every nag plunked along at exactly the same speed. And (of course) Australians find no contradiction in that. Ours is the meritocracy that dare not speak its name...
...been reading “Crime and Punishment” and watching “Amelie” again. Everyone has heard of Harvard, and this makes a wider range of people want to come. It also means that your average Harvard student is more—dare I say?—normal than your average Yalie. Harvard’s sheer world fame draws excellent students from all countries and backgrounds while Yale, less-known, still feeds off more exclusive, east-coast-preppy sources. 46 percent of Yale’s freshman class came from private and parochial...
...morality, for all of its ease, most inexcusably errs in its pride. What sort of imperialist hubris, unbefitting of our University’s commitment to moral neutrality and relativism, can claim to dictate proper political behavior to the indigenous rulers of third-world states? No conscientious man would dare defend Sudan—or Burma—and their dastardly deeds, and rightfully so. But the implications of such posturing, by intimidating investment banks, shaking down corporations, and guilt-tripping college administrators, bode extremely ill for our politics.Political solutions, no matter how uncontroversial or widely supported, can never...