Word: renders
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Legal procedures in a democratic society are not ends in themselves, but are legitimated only by the justice of the substantive results they render. Legal procedures are seldom if ever truly sufficient to rectify past wrongs, especially when blood has been shed. But when the sanctions associated with these legal procedures offer no meaningful promise of deterring individuals from future wrongs, they become a mockery of the ideal of justice rather than the best that justice can provide under less than ideal circumstances. The probability that Sharon will remain in the Israeli Cabinet, and that the furor over the Commission...
...more direct and feasible route, though, would be to render existing concentrations more flexible. Departments have all the advantages of staff and resources. Perhaps they might add to these the advantage of being truly sensitive to legitimate academic pursuits beyond those which they themselves have established. The English Department has lately taken steps to revamp its requirements to better reflect concentrators needs: the more departments follow their lead, the better...
...told associates late last week that he felt he had been let down by both Begin and Shamir. He said he was "disappointed in the Old Man" for not helping him more strenuously, but he was furious with the Foreign Minister for not returning from Europe more quickly to render support...
...intend the West no good. Recent ultra-nationalist sloganeering about Hong Kong and Taiwan has in fact flourished. The implementation of the new constitution has shown the moderate Deng Xiaoping's power to far from uncontested--and in the struggle after his inevitable removal or death, domestic concerns could render all predictions of a "pragmatic" foreign policy worthless. The communists have not brought stability to China. Domestically, in 35 years they have introduced four different concepts of communism, four constitutions, and three wrenching changes in government. Abroad, China was at one time a close ally of the Soviet Union...
...masculine" manner on culture. What Bourgeois sets up is a totemic, surrealistic imagery of weak threats, defenses, lairs, wombs, almost inchoate groupings of form. Her work is by turns aggressive and pathetic, sexually charged and physically awkward, tense and shapeless. It employs an imagery of encounter to render concrete an almost inescapable sense of solitude. In short, it is physically, if not always formally, rich stuff, and one may be glad that the Museum of Modern Art and Associate Curator Deborah Wye have set it forth in such a detailed exhibition...