Word: insist
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While the officers of Hammered say they encourage students to pursue non-alcohol related activities, they insist that they never preach to students about their alcohol consumption. “We try to stay neutral. All we do is offer an alternative. We don’t say it’s bad and we don’t say it’s wrong,” says Matt N. Finkel, the soft-spoken but confident president of the organization. Among other activities, the members of Hammered played beer pong with broccoli (as opposed to beer) for a promotional...
...game fairly," the case is harder to deal with, though only a relatively few men may be involved. Most clubs are exclusive precisely in order that men of this stamp may be kept out. We are trying to run the Union on a generous democratic basis, and we insist that every Harvard man who wants them should enjoy the privileges of the House. If we are to succeed, two things are essential; every man must be willing to combine with his pleasure of private ownership an admission of joint ownership, and take no unfair advantage; and we must...
...focus images of fluffy bunnies and blooming bouquets—these delightfully wholesome tableaux seem conspicuously absent from the local environment. The stripped-bare foliage continues to bear more than a passing resemblance to the set of the Blair Witch Project (preponderance of red brick aside); deluded optimists who insist on wearing flip-flops outside end up with toes a distinctive shade of magenta by sunset; and carb-loaded comfort foods still retain that elusive yet maddening X-factor which renders piping hot pad thai an easy choice over macrobiotic vegetables...
...Sadr's fierce young lieutenants apply a puritanical Islamic creed when and where they can. They insist women go veiled, they bar Western music and dress, they censor films and close--or burn down--liquor stores. In Najaf they have set up an office for the "Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice," just as the Taliban did in Afghanistan. Al-Sadr has authorized his followers to set up illegal courts and prisons in Baghdad and eight southern cities, where al-Sadr enemies have allegedly been tortured...
...both men agree that the dynamics of operating a family business are changing. Sensitive to charges of nepotism, the brothers insist that it is not a foregone conclusion that their companies will remain family dynasties. Akira's two sons and one daughter work for him, but he says it's unclear whether any of them will occupy his corner office when he retires. "It'd be good for them to become independent and start their own companies," he says. "That way, they could learn management know-how. Nothing has been decided." And while two sons-in-law and one daughter...