Word: intentionalism
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Admiral Yamamoto Isoroku was indeed the attack's architect, but his intent was not to "annihilate their Pacific Fleet with a single attack," as he declares in the movie. His more subtle aim was to discourage America from interfering in Japanese affairs by showing the Yanks that Japan was a force. He hoped a quick victory in Hawaii would prompt the U.S. to petition for peace in the Pacific, which would allow expansionist Japan, already on the move in China, to pursue oil and other supplies in Sumatra, Borneo and Java. Japan felt it was under a tight deadline...
...Anything short of a clean start for Corsica could prove disastrous. It would be a travesty of the bill's intent if nationalists ended up sharing power on the island while still supporting more radical underground groups accused of perpetrating violence and crime. That would likely provoke a get-tough reversal of Corsican policy by Paris - and derail projects to speed devolution to other regions...
...while Jenna seems rather foolishly intent on making the same mistake again and again, it?s not exactly a national disaster. She?s not doing anything dangerous, or even anything particularly embarrassing. She?s simply engaging in a time-honored ritual: thumbing her nose at the authority figures in her life. Unfortunately for Jenna, her authority figures happen to live in the White House...
...friends to whom he confided his lethal plan would have turned him in. Last week a blue-ribbon panel that studied the Columbine massacre criticized police, school officials and the killers' parents for not intervening to stop Klebold and Harris, after being given signs of their murderous intent. "That would have been one of the best things a person could have done," says Ramsey of his own case. Instead, Ramsey's buddies egged...
...sweat of former dropout Ernest Chavez, 17, hunched over a computer, intent on making up enough courses to graduate with his class. It's there when Sergeant Jose Campos, 62, who has been teaching Junior ROTC for 24 years, brags that this year he has "87 young ladies in my program"--the most ever. And you hear it in the school's mariachi band, practicing before sunrise. A visit to Louis W. Fox Academic and Technical High School in San Antonio, Texas, shows how far the school has come. Just five years ago, it was the worst school in Texas...