Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...massive renovation project two years ago, the old bathroom was gutted and replaced. Soon afterward, women began to refill the walls--for tradition's sake, mostly. The scribblings in our new women's bathroom are far less indignant, far more encouraging. One message, written by a returning Crimson alumna, notes how far women have come...
...knock mush. Mush in small doses can be very nice. But mush-for-the-sake-of-mush can get a little absurd. Mush isn't exciting; it's squishy and fake, and it makes me a little uncomfortable. Most importantly, you can't build anything with mush...
Harvard clearly needs to clean house--quickly. General Counsel Margaret H. Marshall announced last month that she will open an investigation of any discriminatory practices. For Harvard's sake as well as for the guards', she can't afford the negligence that marred last spring's investigation under then-General Counsel Daniel Steiner '54. In that case, the General Counsel's office purported to carry out a thorough investigation of harassment in the guard unit--without interviewing any guards...
...decision, written by Chief Justice William Rehnquist, conceded "for the sake of argument" that a "truly persuasive demonstration" of innocence might warrant federal review, but Leonel Torres Herrera did not meet even that hypothetical test. In 1982 he was convicted -- on the basis of eyewitness testimony and other evidence -- of shooting a Texas police officer. The court ruled that Herrera could not reopen his case years later by producing statements from four people who said his brother was the actual killer. The brother could hardly dispute the claim, since he died in 1984. In a dissent, Justice Harry Blackmun argued...
...wonderful closings in movies, one in particular comes to mind now. A journalist has just given up, for love, the biggest story of his life. He has also surrendered the love of his life, all for the sake of a young woman. A most unlikely situation, a dramatic confectioner's creation. Reality has no place in this fantasy. Until the ending. And until...