Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Although we support AAA, I wasn't as informed on the issue," said Benjamin Lui, president of the Hong Kong Club. "My support is in that if they have grievances they should address them to Dean Epps. My support is more for the sake of communication...
Merwin's own work aims to "make something happen." He says, "I think that the idea of art for art's sake--it's OK, but it ends up with reacrame., You know, if you like reacrame, that's fine, but there's no reason why it should be supering in stamp collecting or anything else, and I don't think that's what poetry is about." He gestures a passing ambulance. "It's about life and death...
Theoretically, this idea might have some merit, but when the process is conducted by people like Read, who blur together the entire Eastern hemisphere, and who allow a 18-year-old kid to be dragged through a public trial for the sake of placating Greeks without gripes, Hackney should have intervened on the side of truth and justice with all possible speed...
...repetition of genocide. I recognize the right of those slaughtered in, as well as those who survived, the Holocaust, to be remembered and honored with our prayers and our tears. Yet one crucial question needs to be asked loudly. If remembrance is to be used for remembrance's sake only, rather than applying the lessons of history to contemporary political decision-making, what is the practical...
Last summer a journalist named Bryan Appleyard rode this discontent to the top of England's best-seller lists with a neoconservative polemic called Understanding the Present, subtitled Science and the Soul of Modern Man. In Britain, the book inspired headlines such as FOR GOD'S SAKE FIRE THE BIG BANG BRIGADE. Its publication in the U.S. has begun to strike sparks. Science, maintains Appleyard, devalues questions it can't answer, such as the meaning of life or the existence of God. Its relentless advance has driven the magic out of the world, leaving us with nothing to believe...