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Letteri said he realizes the University operates on a tight budget, but said that "budget considerations shouldn't pertain to police protection...
...that her office oversaw this year drew under 10 competitors. The problem may be one of access for the whole community: A select few students compete for costly rewards. Or it may be benign: Few students--men or women--are interested in competing for essay prizes. Or it may pertain specifically to the status of women in the University...
...animals--is bad. Suffering is related to consciousness. I think the argument should be developed that just as it misconceives the significance of purpose and rationality to view them teleologically (i.e., to maximize their realization without regard to the entities in which they reside and to which they pertain), so it misconceives the value we put on minimizing suffering to think of it as an abstract entity without regard to the entities to which it pertains...
...double-edged Gillette razor snicks out of it; a stuffed bird. Box 55, nestles in a bed composed not of twigs but of thousands upon thousands of sharp glass fragments. The textures, in short, are not to be touched; they are real enough to wound, but they do not pertain to the "real" world. Samaras brings such contradictions to an excruciating pitch by, among other devices, his use of color-brilliant loops and stripes of rainbow-dyed wool, confetti patterns of dots and painted flecks, drawerfuls of costume-jewelry sequins, crusts of rhinestone and glitter...
Airline pilots may not understand all the technicalities of international law as they pertain to hijackers. As a group, though, they are furious-and perhaps a bit desperate-over the inability of law-enforcement agencies to control the problem. The pilots' tough new proposals could, at least in the beginning, lead to greater risks and perhaps more casualties, but many pilots seem prepared to take that chance. "We can't solve the ills of the world through our governments," says a senior British pilot, "but we can damn well try harder to keep the terrorists off our airplanes...