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Their hope was three-fold: to give children there the opportunity to play soccer and to have a safe sport area which would help bind the community together; to give a precious new possession to a run-down area; and to lift people's spirits and their pride in the community. They were slapped in the face...
...supervisor of the park even told The New York Times that, "They'd [the children] take off their shoes." It seemed that the Norwegian government's hopes for the field had been achieved. Children only take off their shoes when they do not want to soil something precious to them...
...loss doesn't mean the end of Harvard's Ivy League title aspirations; no champion has gone unscathed through its league schedule in the memories of this year's graduating class. But in addition to Columbia, Dartmouth, Brown and Princeton all have clean sheets to-date, so there is precious little room for error...
...Pope and I would probably agree about one thing: this is a hell of a way to think of human beings. Every moral system known to our species starts with the proposition that each human life is precious (even though we may not agree on when that life begins), each child a potential source of delight. Surely there are other philosophies -- Hitler and his epigones in Bosnia represent one -- but they cannot claim the label moral. When we start thinking of the neighbors' kids as pollutants, we're on our way to Rwanda writ large...
...venerable and illustrious Corporation has no reason to squander precious good weather on impecunious undergraduates such as ourselves...