Word: sake
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...seemed inevitable that Thai blood would flow on Bangkok's streets. The army's intervention against Thaksin Shinawatra's autocratic rule came as a great relief to Thais, who had been living on edge for at least the past year. Marshall seems to believe in democracy for democracy's sake. Under Thaksin's five-year rule, we lived with massive corruption and oppression. I know we have to wait and see if the people in power keep their promise of finishing the revision of the constitution and calling a new election within a year. At least they kept their promise...
...save the liberal arts, University Hall must remember why Harvard teaches the liberal arts. It is not so that students leave knowing skill-sets or canons of materials, but rather that they leave knowing some and thirsting for more. Knowledge for knowledge’s sake is neither a pedagogical method nor a vocational skill; it is a metaphysical belief asserting that studying the universe enriches the lives of those who try. The power to decide the pathway to this goal must be released from the bureaucratic rule of committee and given to the individual student...
...make those nations join hands at this stage, given the way the war has played out. But he said that the U.S. has set far too many conditions for diplomacy-particularly in negotiations with rogue states like Iran and Syria-and needs to engage in diplomacy for its own sake. Haass said a regional forum was also needed because of the growing "militiaization" of the former Sunni state-a factor he said was growing in intensity. He said Washington will need the Syrians to help quell their clients in Iraq, Iran to shut down its operatives and so forth. Would...
...Gould-Wartofsky says he is not someone who protests for the sake of protesting. His approach to campus activism is utilitarian, a goal-driven process rather than an activity in itself, he says...
...awful lot of kids just packed their bags and went to the beach," Thomas says. The protests that did happen during that period were "certainly related to the war…but a lot of it was people making a commotion for the sake of making a commotion...