Word: sakes
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...just chose to ignore it. I figured it wasn't the right time to have a discussion, so I just let it pass. I have rarely been bothered by anybody about my hijab. If anything, I often get complimented on it. I may cover my hair for the sake of God, but I love getting it cut and styled. I have a husband who can't understand how I spend so much time at the mall; I have big dreams for work; I play sports; I love to run. I cringe at the word extremist. And I thank God that...
...Şte noire is “the corporations.” In his world, corporations aren’t just hapless profit-making machines linked up to an established social structure; they stand in for Satan’s armies committed to evil for evil’s sake. He talks convincingly of the futility of acting through government, but ruins the point with an unremitting focus on the extremes: “They’re all Vichy governments,” he declares...
...apologize, Dan Zailskas, because you may be the biggest key to your team’s success this season. And I hope, for the sake of Crimson baseball, that not putting you in the baseball preview turns out to have been a big mistake...
...richest and most influential green groups in the U.S., Sanjayan fights for biodiversity. The concept is the backbone of the environmental movement, a recognition that the unimaginable variety of wildlife is an essential part of what makes our planet special, and worthy of protection for its own sake. But Sanjayan is worried that the conservation movement to which he has dedicated his life may be overlooking another kind of diversity: racial diversity. An American of South Asian descent (like many people from his native Sri Lanka, he generally uses one name), Sanjayan often finds himself as the only person...
...this makes me wonder if perhaps ours is the ropes-course generation. We appear to be of an age in which we are ready to jump on the trend of any train at a moment’s notice, all for the sake of appearing as though we are connected to one another. The solution is to call for another lap-sit, and then another, and then another...