Word: sakes
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...recent editorial, the Washington Post warned that Bush should not sacrifice his democracy agenda in the Middle East. And indeed it would be perilous to abandon our ideals for the sake of short-term security...
...Wear (Abbeville; 320 pages; $95) by Julie Schafler Dale is a stunning survey of a movement dedicated to clothes for art's sake. The designers of these garments (weavers, needleworkers and painters) sacrifice the practical for the spectacular. These robes of many colors shimmer with feathers, beads, buttons and metallic threads. An ordinary flight jacket, when encrusted with 25,000 brass safety pins, is transformed into glittering armor. Knitted into a wool jacket, along with abstract images of the sun and its rays, are words by Walt Whitman ("Give me the splendid, silent sun/With all his beamsfull?dazzling"). A book...
...would have a hard time differentiating between a responsible parent who thinks about parenting and then hits and one that does not," Lieber said. "Responsible parents have to give up the privilege to physically discipline their children for the sake of protecting children that aren't being hit once in a blue moon or in a light way, but are really being hit day after day, many times...
...sexually molested--by a police sergeant, no less. You drag him into a case that spreads details of a humiliating attack all over the public record, a record accessible online in court databases available to millions of readers. You say the attack wasn't your fault, for Pete's sake, so why should you put your name on the lawsuit...
...final analysis, despite the differences we have on the domestic agenda and the kind of society we want for America, we hope that Evangelicals will continue to support Israel for Israel's sake...