Word: dears
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...because the law of averages suggests that in a group this numerous there ought to be at least one mean, crazy, totally unassimilable figure. Somebody, in other words, who would cut through the sweet patience with which the Krichinskys confront both their ups and downs, and occasionally convert their dear, generally comic bickerings into something dramatically forceful. We're talking chicken soup here -- momentarily warming and comforting but, in any large moral or historical sense, therapeutically useless...
Some Muslim women argue that the zealots are perverting the very religion they claim to hold so dear. "This terrifying image of unhappy women covered in veils is not Islam," says Leila Aslaoui, an Algerian magistrate. Certainly, Muhammad was a liberal man for his time. He helped out around his various households, mended his own clothes and believed sexual satisfaction was a woman's right. The religion he founded outlawed female infanticide, made the education of girls a sacred duty and established a woman's right to own and inherit property...
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...what would we be fighting for -- "Dear old Danzig or dear old Dong Dang?" Or "Shall we use some big words like 'democracy' and 'freedom' and 'justice'?" Yes, Luce replied, of course. This does not mean that it is our task "to police the whole world nor to impose democratic institutions on all mankind including the Dalai Lama and the good shepherds of Tibet." But America must primarily blame herself if "the world environment in which she lives" is "unfavorable to the growth of American life." And our only chance to make our democracy work is as part...
...Dear David Souter," the card reads. "We, as fellow intellectuals and membersof the Harvard Community, ask that you recognizethat the right to privacy extends to a woman'sright to choose an abortion...