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...this light, it seems hard to justify opposition to a law that would protect kids--just for the sake of convenience of bikers who don't want to go a halfminute and a quarter-mile out of their...
...possible to control costs to institutions such as Harvard without limiting coverages or handing down a greater share of costs to staff members. It is critical that we strive to do just that, for the sake of the University and its working people. No one can afford simply to continue as we are. It is also possible to change our definitions of who is included and who is covered, as our understandings change about what kind of families exist among us and need to be supported. Until we do that, an ideal of basic fairness and equal treatment for everyone...
...there are these surface touch stones which were drawn from my own experience--like the cello and the description, certainly, of my home town--but I did it more for convenience sake than for any sort of autobiography. I don't think her character, in the way that she sees her crises, is anything like me. If anything, I think she's more like a composite of many black women that I grew up with--a kind of way of looking at the world which was prevalent in the '70s, which is different...
...Updike can always charm a reader. He's not playing the deconstruction game for the sake of some high theoretical purpose. He's poking fun at the theory itself...
...CHARGE OF "VIOLENCE FOR THE SAKE OF VIOlence" brought by an African National Congress commission of inquiry was not the familiar litany of human- rights abuses aimed at the usual target, the South African government. Instead the report detailed violence and torture within the A.N.C. itself. The inquiry was ordered by A.N.C. president Nelson Mandela to settle allegations by former detainees of atrocities committed against them by the A.N.C.'s security department in its detention camps. Conceding that the abuses had violated the A.N.C.'s own code of conduct, Mandela promised the report would be considered "as a matter...