Word: sakes
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...generation after generation of their children into wars which not even the most decisive military victory can end, they have lost the will to continue the Jewish national struggle and are more inclined to concede the country's most fundamental values, like control over the Temple Mount, for the sake of peace--and quiet. Or at least, so say Safire and his right-wing chums, who take "peacemonger" as a much stronger insult than "warmonger...
Faculty and students alike should be more willing to acknowledge the extent to which grades are tangential to course material. This would do much to dispel Harvard's grade obsessive culture and shift emphasis toward the pursuit of learning for its own sake...
...tied up the Crimson in knots, outmuscling Harvard on the puck, and whizzing it around the ice with terrific precision. Harvard managed just three shots on goal in the first period, and at least two were weak sharp angle shots that appeared to be shots for the sake of shooting...
...vaguely self-satisfied look in their eyes. Well, of course we are--we're losing it every day, in every town and city and street corner in America. We lose, and lose, and then we lose some more. But the war goes on. As it must, for the sake of our society--and of our souls...
...instantly denied the story, her spokesperson intoning that Lopez and Combs "are absolutely together." Unconvinced, the Daily News responded that Lopez and Combs, whose trial on weapons-possession and bribery charges starts in New York this week, had merely reached an agreement to remain together in public for the sake of his pretrial image. The jury will surely be impressed by Puffy's commitment, real or otherwise, to a hot movie star...