Word: dares
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...send this country into war. The Administration's professed indifference to anything Congress might do about the "surge" is a case in point. The one power members of Congress still might have is the power of the purse. Why don't they use it? Supporters of the war dare them to try, but stand ready to accuse them of abandoning the troops if they shut off funds - as if ending the war meant leaving American soldiers shivering in Baghdad without bus fare home...
...receive these things in earnest from someone you’re romantically involved with. But getting a Tonka truck Valentine from your best friend or a yellow carnation with “Please fix me up with your brother at Loyola” is hilarious and—dare I say it?—heartwarming...
...loss of Kosovo is inevitable (but daren't say so for fear of losing votes) and hard-line populist "patriots" who find the general frustration over Kosovo a fertile ground for their merchandise - and whose ascent to power would push Serbia deeper into confrontation and misery. I do not dare predict which of the two sides will prevail...
...your house with a special air conditioner to mimic living at a high altitude, so that when you're at low altitude--say, on a basketball court in Washington--you can breathe easily. 2) Hold extra practice sessions at midnight. 3) Pull pranks on fellow players and dare them to retaliate. "Don't play with a guy who doesn't have a conscience about things," Arenas warns. During a road trip, Arenas filled teammate Andray Blatche's hotel bathtub with coffee. And 4) dream of a post-playing career in advertising. He has strange ideas for commercials for his shoe...
...modernism” was much more than a premonition. This bold statement about James’ place in the history of ideas is not only a fairly obvious publisher’s appeal to horn-rimmed graduate students of comparative literature who wouldn’t dare touch a book dealing with hopelessly unemancipated “pre-modern” thought—it’s really not all that true. James was far more associated with late-Victorian schools of psychology and philosophy than those of the modern era, and though his studies of pragmatism and consciousness...