Word: needlessly
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...Needless to say, NBC is by no means the first outlet to alter their official nomenclature. According to Editor & Publisher writer, Anna Crane, the Los Angeles Times was amongst the first media outlets to shed the qualifiers and label the fighting directly as a civil war. Other organizations have since fallen into line. The Christian Science Monitor likes “deepening civil war,” while Newsweek’s Fareed Zakaria is pretty direct: “We’re in the middle of a civil war and are being shot at by both sides...
...summer break, so I waited. Earlier in the fall, I made overtures (not explicit) to ask her out earlier this year, but she always replied with “I’m busy this weekend, maybe next.” She now has a boyfriend who goes here. Needless to say, finding out about that kind of broke my heart. As it stands now, I’m happy as long as she’s happy, but there’s a part of me that hopes that someday I might have a chance. Here?...
...example, or act out scenes from sentimental films like Now, Voyager or Brief Encounter. French is taught by having some of the lads act out an encounter between a prostitute and her client. And Hector is not above bopping an inattentive or disruptive student with a sheaf of papers. Needless to say, the kids respond to him with forbearance for his oddities and affection for his merry humanism...
...Needless to say, this admission leaves the National Association of Evangelicals, as well as the evangelical community at large, in a bit of a bind. After all, Haggard has consistently preached that there can be “no debate about what we should think about homosexual activity—it’s written in the Bible.” He makes a pretty compelling point. But one imagines that even the closest, most devout reading of the Good Book will not yield any loopholes concerning outspoken male prostitutes. So, either we’re reading Leviticus wrong...
...flight home. It made me resent Egypt and Islam in general, but I always had the comfort of knowing that I would eventually return home. For millions, that paranoia is an inescapable daily reality, and the consequence of a sad social phenomenon that has long been due for reform. Needless to say, religion tenaciously resists change—especially a religion that is under constant political attack and has become almost reactionary in response. The problem lies in the impression that to believe, you must also adhere literally to the holy text. While well intentioned, that notion does a disservice...