Word: intentionally
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Seven Sisters of U.S. gymnastics (see page 42). In this ghost town on Saturday, one could only wish that they might magically reappear to make all of Atlanta--spectator, Olympian, official--braver. After all, in just a few hours last week, they had crystallized and reminded us of the intent of the Games...
...conveyor belt is the seedpod of our death. The furniture really does conceal monsters. Each rental truck is an apocalypse idling at the curb. Each 747 takes on some unsettling metaphysic of Jonah-eating whale, or Moby Dick. Paranoia renders nature and its objects darkly volitional, satanic. The intent of terrorism, we know, is to break down the boundaries and sane categories of the mind and to make everyone start thinking like a psychotic...
...hatred infecting a region traumatized by Rwanda's and Burundi's civil wars. Neither the Tutsi minority, victims of genocide in 1994, nor the Hutu majority, disfranchised in both their former homelands, has been willing to negotiate. Both feel they have an ancestral right to govern and are intent on pursuing that goal by any means. Ironically, the Hutu quest for a homeland in Zaire conforms to the most radical solution yet proposed to solve the crisis: redrawing the borders so that Hutu and Tutsi can live apart in their own countries. But talks that would precede such a partition...
...highly contentious issue of affirmative action, however, Scalia has been accused of abandoning both his fidelity to original intent and his habitual deference to the legislature. He argues that the 14th Amendment's equal-protection clause forbids virtually any racial classifications in law despite the fact that the very Congress that passed the 14th Amendment went on to pass laws using just such classifications...
Cameron F. MacDonald and Kevin M. Silvers, both about 20 years old, were arrested for unarmed assault and intent to rob in connection with the incident, police said...