Word: reasons
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According to China, which first reported the skirmish, Soviet troops intruded into Sinkiang for no ostensible reason. They killed one shepherd, kidnaped another, and brought large numbers of tanks and armored cars onto Chinese soil in an effort to "provoke still larger armed conflicts," said Peking. After the Russians refused to "talk reason," Chinese troops fought back in self-defense, but the situation was still "developing," the Chinese protest to Moscow added ominously...
Thus, the conservatism exhibited by the American Irish is not such an unaccountable change of spirit as one might suppose. The dispossessed have reason to be cautious, as even Rap Brown must know by now. After roughly 1700, the revolutionary spark in Eire came mainly from Anglo-Irish Protestants more recently arrived, such as Wolfe Tone, Robert Emmet and Parnell, and from people rich and secure enough to take chances. The English habit of stuffing their problem island with Britons kept backfiring in this way. After a generation or so, the new settlers were Irish themselves, ready for a fresh...
Taosenos complain of the hippies' immorality, drug abuse and public nudity, but the complaints have proved largely illusory. A more realistic reason for the rancor is the fact that as many as 25% of local residents-most of whom are Mexican Americans-are unemployed, and many resent the white middle-class hippies' obvious flouting of the American ideal. "They are making fun of our poverty and our fight for survival," says Francis Quintana, a local school principal. Another explanation is that local entrepreneurs fear the hippies will hurt Taos' largest industry, tourism. "Tourists don't want...
...ladylike spy in the Mission: Impossible series. Then she took an unladylike poke at CBS and the series' production company, noting that "there are a couple of people I'd like not to thank. Since they know who they are, I won't name them." Reason for her ire: she has dropped out of the series in sympathy with her co-star and husband Martin Landau, and his reported demands for a pay hike...
Perhaps there is a reason; painting is essentially a more voluptuous mode of expression than drawing. To judge from 16th century copies of his now lost Leda and the Swan, he could depict sensuous nudes when he chose. But the drawing that survives of Leda's head shows a lady ethereal and detached. Surviving also are the austere and delicate silverpoint studies of hands, believed to have been made for the portrait of Ginevra dei Benci. The painting itself, in Washington's National Gallery, has been cut off just below the shoulders (though no one knows in which...