Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...community within the guarantees of democratic values. After his untimely death, with May, in a plane crash in 1970, waves of downsizing devastated cities and created problems for labor that still exist today. You can just imagine him wading into the fight against wanton job destruction, done for the sake of propping up corporate balance sheets...
...Will Men Ever Stop?": Besides the blatant sexism that has everything to do with a personal vendetta and nothing to do with constructive argument, Jenny Heller mounts an attack upon strip clubs. Urinate upon an altar, torture puppies, but for God's sake, do not attack the most sacred institution known to man! Strip clubs are both a great way to relax and enjoy fine company, as well as a way for Harvard males to escape the repressed, angry and sadistic man-hating that occurs with all too much frequency here. RUSSELL E. SCHMIDT...
...Harvard has a responsibility to offer diversity not only in the field of education, but also in terms of what students can do with that education. Although statistics, classics and VES departments are relatively smaller and less popular, the University, justifiably, felt it worthwhile to subsidize them for the sake of variety and diversity. The same argument ought to hold when presenting career options, especially since it is where they will end up spending most of their lives...
...issues were nonetheless resonant among even non-Jews. Yaakov Freedland's Fragments of a Dream set the archetypal figures of the willful: an army-bound son and the proud father unwilling to leave his violent homeland amid the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The theme of self-sacrifice for the sake of family preservation manifested itself in the desert trek of a Sudanese family to Jerusalem in Einat Kapach's Jephtach's Daughter. The highlight of the screenings, however, was Ido, an award-winning documentary directed by Gilaad Goldschmidt, which combined similar themes of youthful rebellion and family relationship with a more...
...film festival) lies in their ability both to ingratiate and to inform. While I could relate to the interpersonal and interpersonal conflicts depicted (haven't we all at one time or another rebelled against our parents? disagreed with our friends? given up something of value for someone else's sake?), the environment in which the universalisms were set clued me into previously unknown aspects of Jewish culture. Before the Boston Jewish Film Festival, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was all bombs and faceless terrorists, and who knew of the rift between so-called secular and observant Jews...