Word: intentionally
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...West is truly intent on keeping peace in the world, they must support the creation of a rapid reaction force for the United Nations. Secretary General Kofi Annan has repeatedly requested that this type of standing army be created for the United Nations to be effective in maintaining international security. But the West, mostly the United States, has not supported this move...
...tradition" of the twentieth century avant-garde, the irrational alternative to high modernism's fixation on form, structure and dogma. Watts and Kaprow inherited this position from Marcel Duchamp, father of Dada and first to insist that "the viewer completes the work of art." Their process was Duchampian in intent and radical in form: they created art objects from everyday objects and performance pieces from everyday events, decontextualizing those elements and thereby giving the piece a new function within the aesthetic space of the gallery. Often they rejected the confines of the gallery space altogether. Watts's and Kaprow...
...from our intent to subtract from anyone's enjoyment of the evening or to offend anyone," the e-mail message said. "We are sorry if that happened on account of our performance...
Lewis finds it hard to believe that maybe, just maybe, the "evil" whites who supported keeping the flag up didn't mean it as an insult to blacks at all. And the flag's intent truly is to honor the Confederate dead; whether this fact is misinterpreted shouldn't be the fault of the people who supported it. Furthermore, this is a battle flag (the Confederate naval battle flag, to be precise), the purpose of which is to fly over an army on the battlefield. At no time did this flag ever represent the political or governmental side...
...under the law, meaning that the law potentially bans any first or second trimester abortions. The Nebraska legislature actually voted down an amendment that would specifically ban D&X abortions instead of the vaguely worded "partial birth" abortion. The reason: Banning only the D&X procedure was not the intent of the bill's sponsors--the idea was to stop almost all abortions from being performed...