Word: die
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Having sworn a solemn oath to see Harvard's calendar change before I die, I'm alarmed by the marked lack of anticalendar sentiment evident on campus these days. What follows is my attempt to fan the smoldering flames of the noble struggle against the great hated bourgeois calendar...
...morally reprehensible to turn a blind eye to this suffering and despair. It is also foolish. These children are the very ones who turn themselves into the human bombs: They have nothing to live for, and there are plenty of zealots who convince them that there is everything to die for. It is not Islam that preaches that message; it is the dehumanizing misery that causes this misguided interpretation of its tenets...
...least this way we get a specific reaction from the dean. Before, our legislation had a tendency to float and die," Blais said...
...indolent people into the new economy, giving them dignity and a chance to contribute to their country's nascent gnp. And because we've taught the monks to scrupulously detoxify their dyes before dumping them upstream from the tiny, unspoiled Nepalese villages (whose honey-skinned children are so to die for that Jan and I actually adopted one), your purchase of our hand-stitched window dressing will help save the planet for future generations...
...much attention on these murdered white, middle-class children while all but ignoring the equally unthinkable deaths of other youngsters: the street children of Rio de Janeiro, periodically murdered by authorities and vigilantes when their numbers grow too large; the child sex workers of Thailand and Indonesia, who die slow and painful deaths when they are infected with aids or addicted to drugs; the uncounted thousands of children of Rwanda, hacked to pieces for being Hutu or Tutsi. These children were murdered by monsters every bit as scary as the psychotic who killed the Dunblane children. But because there...