Word: protecters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...very same age as American college students; many were looking forward to entering college when they finished their three years of military service. While we are carousing in college, Israeli youth of both genders are serving in the military, risking and even giving their lives to protect their country and their families...
Occasionally, the prose can sound like homily. But Clark unfolds the story's moral dramas with rare assurance and grownup charity. As his people learn to lie--to protect others and not themselves--and as they come to see how "sometimes the better part of love is silence," he suggests that religion consists mostly of the faith we have in those around us. In the Deep Midwinter not only shows how love can lead to suffering, but also, more interestingly, points out how suffering can lead to love...
Others feel that it is the University's responsibility to protect them from the tyrannical monopoly...
...that. Says Thompson: "At Fort Wood, it seems to be a horizontal problem, not a vertical one. Their approach seems to be 'throw the rotten apples out of the barrel before they infect the other apples.' " Thompson adds that commanders at Fort Leonard Wood had begun taking action to protect female recruits before the Aberdeen incident broke, but are now bearing down more firmly. "Female recruits presenting allegations of sexual harassment are now given a more attentive hearing," Thompson says, "and that's to the greater good...
...choice about whether to pursue meaningful Ad Board reform is a choice between which standards it prefers to uphold: those that have been hashed out over the centuries by legal scholars as ideal for establishing the truth, defending the accused, and meting out appropriate punishments; or those that "protect" Harvard students, the same Harvard students, that write books, run million-dollar companies, and even occasionally have the ear of the White House...