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...understand when we said Pokemon is good for children. In the end, though, it was good for us that a mother was in charge." Tilden says the seizures caused by the show concerned her, but "we knew it was isolated to that one episode." She adds, "It did not deter us from being excited. We were committed to taking...
...Mary Beth Hammerstrom '87, a four-hour drive to the nearest airport and a flight from rural (Iowa) to Cambridge were not enough to deter her from joining this weekend's centennial celebration of the Radcliffe Choral Society...
...quit." The opposite story, that of young people who thoughtlessly take up smoking, is just as tragic and common. So when Philip Morris advertises that "cigarette smoking is addictive, as that term is most commonly used today. It can be very difficult to quit smoking, but this should not deter smokers who want to quit from trying to do so," it really doesn't tell anyone anything new, nor does it really risk losing much of its clientele...
...peacekeeping record is a point of contention in the the UN's efficacy as an institution. If peacekeeping forces are not supposed to use violence, how can they effectively keep the peace and credibly deter future violence within areas of civil conflict? But perhaps our own conceptions of peacekeeping must evolve before we evaluate a given operation's success...
...this show of individual bravado didn't seem to deter would-be burglars. On Saturday morning, Matthews Hall was hit again...