Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...seemed to fight for the sake of fighting. During his senior year at Georgetown University, Buchanan was escorting a date home and picked a tussle with two cops. "I stuck a size 10 1/2 cordovan where I thought it might do him some good," Buchanan writes. In addition to receiving a broken wrist, he was booted out of school, his scholarship was revoked, and only a sharp criminal lawyer got him off with a misdemeanor. Pop Buchanan went to the Jesuits at Georgetown and pleaded to make his son's suspension temporary, and they agreed. Pat eventually graduated cum laude...
...North Carolina's Elon College. Modern speedways set aside parking space for campers, and some offer alcohol-free family sections in the stands. But a lot of women with keys to the family station wagon, RV or muscle car have found that they love the sport for its own sake. Says Anderson: "We used to joke that we wished you could bottle the smell of the track...
...Steve Forbes did last week when the other candidates ganged up on him. It reminds me of my first up-close and personal impression of her during the '92 campaign, when it was possible to share a van and chat. She would blurt out things like "For goodness' sake, you can't be a lawyer if you don't represent banks," which worked in its way for Willie Sutton but is not wife-of-candidate speak. Airbrushed later, that remark contained the seeds of all that would come after, a desire to have things both ways--the need, shared...
...during senior year, they worry about their future so much that they often sacrifice their dreams for the sake of stability--by going to law school or medical school or into investment banking when they don't really want...
When does this cycle stop? If students are padding a resume or worrying endlessly about grades now, for what reason? Far too many are deferring their dreams for the sake of long-held or far-reaching ambitions whose results they may not even enjoy...