Word: mantras
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...Where do you see the impact of your opposition? Chinese leaders constantly declare their opposition to multiparty elections. If they weren't scared that other Chinese people might follow the example of the organizers of the China Democracy Party, they wouldn't need to repeat this mantra...
...salad garnish or "fried pork pojarski served on a bed of rocket with a cordon of sauce smitane" for a pork cutlet in cream sauce. "Good pubs rely on the quality of their cooking, not the quality of their verbosity," says Aird. That could easily be Andrew Pern's mantra. The owner and head chef of The Star in the village of Harome, Yorkshire, runs one of the few pubs to have won a coveted Michelin star. Yet his menus are as blunt as the plain-spoken Yorkshireman himself. He serves dishes such as braised oxtail with horseradish sauce...
It’s been the Crimson’s mantra. Over and over, everyone associated with the team raves about the team’s dynamic, both on and off the court...
...Blakney's fifth-grade classroom is the front line in the nation's largest experiment in privately run public schools. And on a muggy fall morning in Room 308 at Harrity Elementary School, the troops are doing the Macarena. Arms crossing, hips swiveling, 24 Philadelphia schoolchildren are shouting a mantra--"Wisdom! Justice! Courage!..."--that is supposed to create the lively but respectful classroom environment that can elude even good teachers. And to their skeptical teacher's amusement, it seems to be working. "When Edison taught us this, I thought, 'This is so corny. My kids...
It’s been a mantra for so long that no one really remembers how it got started. The only cooking appliance allowed in Harvard dorm rooms is the microfridge, rented from Harvard Student Agencies (HSA) for the low, low price of $250 a year plus deposit. But the conventional wisdom is wrong. HSA’s microfridge is just as illegal as any other microwave, rice cooker, coffee pot or teapot that students might secret away in a corner of their room. But Harvard administrators don’t know this, and for about seven years, they?...