Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Muskie has Polish ancestry too. Let's hope, for the sake of a consistent foreign policy, that he and Brzezinski are not Poles apart...
Revenge detonates a little explosion of doom for the sake of personal-and usually rather temporary - satisfaction. But some say the practice of vengeance has its salutary, cleansing effect. Better for the circulation, they say, to liberate that maniacal little Nietzsche doll that jumps up and down inside all of us than to let him tear apart his cage...
...enemies in Chicago and torn out their hearts with his hands, he should still not be barred by us from becoming a professor at Harvard. Who knows, in the course of this experience he might have had a visionary insight into the silliness of general equilibrium analysis for the sake of which a grateful, irresponsible, and dazzled posterity might forgive him his crimes. As people and as citizens we do not allow the ends to justify the means. We rightly try not to participate in posterity's characteristic moral indifference and in its crazed and crude worship of creative power...
...residual standard for appointment to HIID is still a bad idea, though the argument against it becomes more tentative. A large amount of study of the Third World goes on at Harvard. HIID has nothing to do with more than a minute part of this research. For the sake of this minimal scholarly advantage, we get continued uncertainty about the issues of academic freedom that are central to the University. Out of confusion or anger, many people will oppose HIID appointments and field programs without insisting on the difference between academic and political activity even if at heart most...
...Germans do recognize that gratitude ought to be a factor. Says Helmut Kohl, chairman of West Germany's Christian Democratic Union: "We have relied on the U.S. for our protection, including Berlin's. It is only right that we now stand with the U.S., for the entire West's sake...