Word: intentionally
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...letter begins with a statement of intent:"We believe that taking away students' prerogativeto choose where they live will be detrimental bothto the houses and to the students...
...into sclerosis in the 1960s and '70s, and saw the imperium collapse in the '80s. Today the yellow arches of McDonald's shed their plastic gleam on Red Square, and gangsterism rules instead of socialist virtue. You know the Nazis inflicted incalculable damage on your nation, with the intent to obliterate all traces of "Slavic culture" from the earth. Why, in this time of collapsed dreams and national humiliation, should you listen to Germans preaching about restitution...
...interview Bhutto gave to Reuter last Saturday, Yousef was busy scheming to assassinate her in the fall of 1993, seven months after the U.S. attack and shortly before she was elected Prime Minister. Armed with explosives, she recounted, he headed for her high-walled oceanside estate in Karachi intent on murder. But one of the devices detonated prematurely, injuring Yousef. Authorities did not catch up with him again until they nabbed him on Feb. 7 in Islamabad...
Considering that Auschwitz is the distillation of all that is evil in mankind, the result is a volume of grotesque moral confusion. The very intent of the book--to bring the Holocaust to seven-year-olds without being depressing--is absurd, and so Celebrations becomes the reductio ad absurdum of this genre of young people's realism: at once confused, dishonest, disturbing and false...
Senior captain Elijah White and classmates Jon Gibbons, Ben Hochberg and Chris Dewing figure strongly in the seat racing. Junior Alex Blake may be the final piece in the heavyweight puzzle, while sophomores Mike Linse, Doug Goodman and Charles Ruch are intent on making Blake check his shoulder...