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...cessation of conflict? No, partition does not work. Conflict resolution should be the name of the game, not an ongoing cold or hot war. Of family discussions at his home, Olmert says he is proud to say that there is no dominant voice, but is there a listening ear? Patricia Daniel Norwich, England...
...enterprise retains its blithe bite nearly three quarters of a century later. It has a smiling contempt for the electoral process and an acute ear for political B.S. Realizing that stump speechifying is the art of couching nonsense in stentorian cadences, they have a Southern Senator intone this bilgewater: "Not for us the entangling alliances of Europe, not for us the allying entanglances of Asia." Wintergreen, who gets high marks for oratory if not for geography, tells voters that he has campaigned "in the cornfields of Kansas, on the plains of Arizona, in the mountains of Nebraska...
...have turned a deaf ear to the ideas [Haddock] campaigned for,” Kwong wrote, noting that the support of the campus for Haddock’s “Fix the UC” platform should have carried more weight with the council...
...cilice [a chain] presented them in such a way that readers might not know whether they were looking at instruments of torture or a means of Christian penance that could fit in the palm of one's hand. Their use is healthier and less painful than having an ear pierced or getting a tattoo. Those means of mortification are used in Opus Dei just as they have been for many centuries by other Catholics. But readers might form an opinion on the basis of those images and the use of the adjective secret that would prevent them from understanding Opus...
...good reason: the show’s script—co-written by Swieskowski, Samuel M. Johnson ’06, co-producer Farley T. Katz ’06, Michael C. Mitnick ’06, and Andrei Nechita ’06—was peppered with ear-withering foul language, gratuitous strip teases, glib drug abuse, cringe-inducing 9-11 gags, and blasphemous musical interludes. Fun for the whole family? Hell no. But, depending on how easily you’re offended, a lot of fun nonetheless.This musical, directed by Vanessa A. Pope...