Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...writing to correct what I believe is a damaging misrepresentation of remarks that I made during a November 7 panel on rape. Although I would not normally make such a correction merely for the sake of accuracy, I feel that the sentiments attributed to me by your reporter are not only so contrary to my own view, but so chilling to survivors of date rape that I must, on this occasion, respond...
...Musawwar, he went to the aid of unspecified terrorist groups in the conviction that they were practicing revolutionary violence for the Arab cause, which is good stuff. Imagine Gaddafi's horror, then, when he discovered that his hijacking, trigger-happy clients actually meant to exercise "terrorism for the sake of terrorism." That is a no-no. Avowed the newly scrupulous Gaddafi: "We have withdrawn our support to such groups...
Awakened by the letter's demands, my journalistic instincts took over. Why, I had to know, is the bread always stale? Why is the pasta so greasy? Why are the servers at the Harvard Union so surly? And for heaven's sake, what is a "Hoppin' John...
...sake of balance, I must report that many clips in my ego folder are unexceptionable. National Review, for instance, recently hollered indignantly about the tilt of something I'd written. Fair enough; my prose was quoted accurately. Still other stories are both factually correct and somewhere between benign and laudatory. (These will be suitably framed and hung on my office wall as soon as time permits.) But there are enough unalloyed clinkers in this little collection to raise disturbing questions. If Washingtonian didn't get my pay right, how many other numbers in that story were wrong...
...party may not have gone far enough -- for its own sake or for the sake of most Hungarians. "This is just a new label on an old bottle," complains Gyorgy Ruttner, an opposition leader who heads the Social Democratic Party. Aware that the bottle's contents might seem familiar and sour, the more radical reformers among the Communists wanted an even sharper break with the past, including expulsion of Old Guard hard-liners. In the end, moderates led by Rezso Nyers, 66, who was elected party president, stitched together a compromise that held the party together but may jeopardize...