Word: intention
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...campaign coverage becomes saturated with questions of personal morality (a.k.a. "character"), candidates respond with by now ritualized pledges of undying fealty to family and, above all, to "family values." What is curious about these paeans to family, however, is that they come at a time when Americans seem intent as never before on taking the family apart. The divorce rate is more than twice what it was 30 years ago. More than half of , American children will live in a single-parent home sometime before age 18. A quarter of all births in the U.S. occur out of wedlock, five...
Nevertheless, based upon responses we have received over the past several days, it has become obvious that the poster provided to us has failed to communicate adequately its intent to those unfamiliar with the speakers' view. In fact, in some instances, the poster has been misconstrued as defending racial stereotypes...
...would like to clarify some of the important issues debated in last Sunday's Undergraduate Council meeting. The issue under discussion was that of the council's report on date rape. The April 13 Crimson article covering the meeting was, I believe, misrepresentative of the UC's fundamental intent in the debate ("UC Defines Rape Narrowly"). The concerns voiced to me by several women center on the fear that rape victims will be less likely to step forward if they believe that the University's policy has become more stringent...
...letter supports Counter but notnecessarily everything he said," added a studentofficial who attended yesterday's meeting. Thestudent, who requested anonymity, expressed abelief that The Crimson's mistake were probablynot made from "malicious intent" or any larger"conspiracy...
Some have reacted with very vocal denouncements of the "hateful" intent of the so-called "spoof" issue, while others have found themselves virtually speechless at the raw message conveyed...