Word: insistences
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tried to tell you before," I said, "This is not the parliamentary system. In our system the winning party is the party that does better than anticipated, or, to put it another way, the party that causes the most embarrassment to commentators who insist on covering political campaigns by predicting results that everyone's going to know on election night anyway...
...your debauchery, as it were, is manifold [vol.10,no.2,4,6 respectively]. At least you've overcome denial but it seems that you almost flaunt your membership in the Grafton Street and Central Square pub-crawling crew. We acknowledge the many pressures of college life, including student marriages, but insist that they are not a legitimate excuse for "getting drunk for the interminable process of production" even if it's free [vol.10,no.2...
...meek ingenue here. Persson's vocals now bristle with a surprising fury while a guitar whines and cracks in the background like the resurrected ghost of desire. When the striking hook emerges in the expansive chorus, it has epic weight of truth; love is, as the Cardigans insist, the surrender of sanity and the beginning of hard, ambiguous emotions. Again and again the songs return to these dark themes of alienation and pain. Love "kills you, it keeps you alive," Persson purrs menacingly in the slick, jerky "Explode," and she means...
...student who vigorously defended "white pride" in a campus publication, or a student who stepped up to a microphone on Widener's steps to declare that a woman's place is in the home, or that left-handed students are unfit for Harvard? Would some in the Harvard community insist on silencing speech that they considered offensive, racist, sexist or homophobic...
...Netanyahu sees the agenda for a Palestinian National Council session to be addressed by President Clinton in December as a deal breaker. The Israelis insist the PNC must vote to excise anti-Israel clauses from its charter; the Palestinians (with Washington concurring) say they already have, and don't intend to vote again. "The only reason to repeat the vote would be because the Israelis are telling them to," says Beyer. "It's an issue of dignity -- the Palestinians can't be expected to do whatever the Israelis say, no matter how ridiculous." So who needs Hamas? The peace process...