Word: intentioned
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...wasn’t always like this. As recently as September, Summers was taking a risky, unabashed public position on Israel and anti-Semitism—famously declaring signers of the Israel divestment petition “anti-Semitic in their effect if not their intent.” Back then, love him or hate him, we all knew what Summers thought...
...return to a single early application policy is far better for students,” Summers said in a press release. “It is more closely aligned with the original intent of early admission programs, which are designed for students with a clear and well-considered interest in a particular college or university. This kind of program was never intended to put extra pressure on students by moving the deadline for multiple applications into the early fall...
Hendricks signed plenty of autographs his senior spring; he also signed a national letter-of-intent to play baseball at Harvard...
...that, to be sure. The right to privacy after death in combat should trump all other concerns. There are other good reasons not to show the true face of war, especially when the photos in question are acts of aggression perpetrated by an enemy intent on damaging American morale. But the desire not to sicken or offend the noncombatant public should not be among them. There is real danger when journalists edit the truth, especially when we sanitize the cataclysmic impact of high-powered munitions upon human flesh. There are those who say such images might induce America to become...
Even a dim understanding of political posturing reveals that Bush was intent on uncompromising unilateralism. To call him a “dove in hawk’s clothing” is a puerile epithet whose sloppiness would make even the most avid of Bush’s spin-doctors cringe. Bush went to the U.N. as a token gesture to garner political points by convincing the naive that he was intent on multilateralism. It was a ploy made all the more transparent by Bush’s obstinacy to granting even trifling concessions over inspection timing and oil-rights...