Word: sakes
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...occasional mullet for the purpose of a rebellious image in his native Hong Kong. An avid frequenter of Australia's Gold Coast, Yu notes that the mullet is much more common in the Land Down Under. There, he declares, the attitude can be summed up as "mullet for the sake of mullet...
Residents emphasized the unique living experience Cronkhite offers graduate students and expressed horror at disrupting a community for the sake of non-student researchers...
...agnostic about animal rights, leaning toward an attitude of common decency (don't torture them, for God's sake) but avoiding ideology. I drove out to see Wise the other day at his home in a suburb west of Boston. It turned out to be the day Wise began work as a lecturer on animal rights at Harvard Law School...
...their own. Vido's father, ever the concerned parent, advises, "Don't be afraid of being an artist. D.H. Lawrence was an artist through and through; and, for the time being at any rate, you should think as Lawrence. Remember what he used to say, 'Art for my own sake. If I want to write, I write--and if I don't want to, I won't.'" Reciprocating his father's cheerleading, Vido spends much of his letters earnestly bolstering his father's insecurities, including a tirade that begins, "You have enough material for a hundred stories. For Heaven...
When I asked whether, if he became President, he would consider offering either Steve Forbes or McCain a Cabinet post, Bush ruminated about how the desire for power--the power to do good, as well as power for its own sake--is a salve that can heal most political wounds. "I understand how power works," he said. In other words: maybe. He also admitted to "a long memory" for slights. In other words: maybe...