Word: mottos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...name it and we make it!" is the motto of this post-modern ice cream distributor. Willing to give any flavor a try, Toscanini's is by far the most exotic ice cream distributor in the Cambridge area, offering such flavors as Guiness (beer flavored), Grape-Nut and basil ice cream. On the lighter side: mango sorbet/micro Sunday...
...officers who shot Diallo were members of the elite street-crimes unit, a plainclothes force charged with getting guns off the street. The unit makes up 1% of the police department but seizes 40% of guns recovered in New York. Critics say the unit, whose unofficial motto is "We own the night," cuts legal corners and is too quick to resort to force. "You have to have a new paradigm of policing," says Ron Daniels, executive director of the Center for Constitutional Rights. "This gung-ho, military-type, fraternity-style policing has got to change...
...Russian nuclear technology and scientists from ending up in dangerous places. There is no plan for a policy to help Russia through its chaos and bring out a friendly government on the other side. "We'd love to help them do more," says an Administration official, "but Primakov's motto is 'Just don't do something; stand there...
...which are unstable, irrational and often contrary to one's moral and social duties. No culture in history has valued romantic love like our own, and yet there is every indication that this has not made for happier families or for more selfless individuals. The ancient Romans had the motto dux vitae ratio ("reason is the guide of life"). The claim that love can justify anything amounts to unconditional surrender before our own fickle passions and to the rejection of everything that moral thought should stand for. Alejandro Jenkins '01 is a physics and mathematics concentrator in Currier House...
...life and truly loves the game, knows the numbers, enjoys the ideas and proposals so much he soaks and wallows in them--even if they only affect life at the margins. It may be that the scandal forced him to focus as never before, to justify the White House motto, "Just going about the work of the American people...