Word: intentionalism
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Cole is hardly alone in distancing himself from "politics." Despite the presence in the windows of Marc Jacobs stores this past spring of T shirts emblazoned with the face of Hillary Clinton, Robert Duffy, president of Marc Jacobs International, disavows any political intent. "We weren't trying to be partisan or controversial," he says. "We were just having a discussion about women we admire, and Hillary was one of them. We also did T shirts with Kim Gordon [of Sonic Youth], but no one said anything about those." The store has also displayed overtly political T shirts and other items...
Lobbyists for the National Rifle Association, who insist that the public is not in fact in favor of the ban, have argued that the law has huge loopholes. Indeed, some gun manufacturers have been producing weapons with slight cosmetic changes to sidestep the intent of the law. Senate Majority Leader Tom Delay, R.-Texas, has derided the ban as an ineffective “feel-good piece of legislation.” To be sure, whatever ambiguity existing in the current legislation is problematic. But the existence of loopholes is not an argument for throwing out the ban altogether...
...hoped to transform into a model of secular democracy in the Middle East. The chances that Iraq will resemble that ideal soon are all but gone. The danger now is that control could slip into the hands of jihadists--as parts of the so-called Sunni triangle already have--intent on establishing their own fundamentalist regime that could become a breeding ground for terrorists. That gloomy prospect means there will not be any significant U.S. troop withdrawal in the near future...
...people that he had the capability of making those weapons. And therefore that was not a failure of imagination to think that. As a matter of fact, I can't imagine not having taken Saddam Hussein seriously as a threat, given his history and his capabilities and his intent...
...More importantly, Sadr has called on his own supporters - most of whom hail not from Najaf, but from the urban Shiite neighborhoods of Baghdad, Basra and the cities in between - to answer Sistani's call and make for Najaf. Ever alert to the political opportunity, Moqtada Sadr appears intent on making sure he emerges from the siege looking not only victorious, but also in lockstep with Sistani and the Shiite clerical mainstream...