Word: intentioned
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...Europeans protest, with some justification, that the U.S. prefers peacemaking to peacekeeping. U.S. bombs and cruise missiles helped "pacify" the Balkans, but it is the Europeans who have the task of making sure the peace endures. Fair enough in Europe's backyard, but not in Afghanistan - where Washington seems intent on bowing out of the process of "stabilizing" the country, the better to train its sites on the next target, Iraq...
...however, maintaining these ties to a long-past world is not the intent of the production. Instead, seeing the links to the immediate world of the audience is the intent and supreme achievement of this innovative, heartfelt and moving production...
...only downside to the Olympics so far has been that the games’ broadcaster, NBC, seems intent on spoiling the fun. Perhaps NBC should change the meaning of its acronym from National Broadcasting Company to Notoriously Bad Coverage, Nothing But Commercials or Never-ending Banal Chatter. Its coverage has been, in a word, awful, from out-of-place and uninformed comments to advertisements in obscene quantities...
...genocide--in Bosnia: it's the gravest offense on the war-crimes books but the hardest to prove. Prosecutors must show that Milosevic knowingly intended to wipe out ethnic or religious groups--Bosnia's Croats and Muslims. "Unless you've got an accused saying, 'Yes, I had the intent, and I had the ability to do it,'" says deputy prosecutor Graham Blewitt, "you can only submit evidence that will enable the judges to infer that's what was in the accused's mind." Most of the charges fit under the less demanding "crimes against humanity" statutes. The maximum sentence...
...distaste-desire-ad nauseum.” And true to this description, he offers a bevy of 19 frighteningly exaggerated marshmallow bunnies, perched atop cans of paint on a transparent tarpaulin. They are, to be sure, shiny and distasteful, but again this seems to be Mueller’s intent. The bunnies aren’t themselves sculptures—they are caricatures of sculptures, caricatures of art writ large...