Word: sentimentals
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...said. “They don’t pay taxes; they impact the neighborhoods; everybody hates them. But if it weren’t for Harvard or MIT, we’d be Chelsea.” Councillor Craig A. Kelley echoed Healy’s sentiment. “It’s easy to trash Harvard, but Harvard is why people want to be here,” Kelley said in an interview. “[Criticizing Harvard] is very appropriate in context, but in a larger context, it’s about what Harvard?...
...anyone who needed him.” Symonds had some walk-on parts in the occasional Gilbert and Sullivan show, Kibbe added, “but he was the star in a really impressive way.” Reading a letter addressed to Symonds, Kibbe expressed a widely held sentiment, that despite his many contributions as an adviser, it is Symonds’s friendship that will be missed the most. “Many friends would agree in saying that I count your friendship as one of my life’s greatest honors,” he said...
...Khanfar: There is a mood in some countries right now because of the issue of terrorism. Tayseer was unique because he was a symbol of the coverage of Afghanistan. He was the only reporter in Afghanistan. Sentiment and feelings do influence legal proceedings. We have to stand with him. As with cameraman Sami Al Hajj, who was arrested as he was entering Afghanistan. He is in Guantanamo. His lawyer told me he doesn't see anything against him. Sami was interrogated and all of the questions were about Al Jazeera. So, it is about Al Jazeera...
Many idealistic students brought to Israel by ISM, including Rachel Corrie, could be described as naïve pawns of Palestinian extremists looking to garner sympathy from the Western media. This sentiment was probably best expressed by a Hamas activist, who said of Corrie: “Her death serves me more than it served her. Going in front of the tanks was heroic. Her death will bring more attention than the other 2,000 martyrs...
...Bush Administration and its policies is any guide, then Muslim Americans - immigrant and African American alike - will not soon break with their new-found liberal allies. In the meantime, many non-Muslim Americans will be troubled by these developments and find in them further evidence of the widespread sentiment that Muslim Americans are not being straight with their fellow citizens, that they are hypocrites. Perhaps they are. But then non-Muslims ought to recognize that "hypocrisy" of the sort on view in Minneapolis last week is akin to the tolerance on which our pluralistic society depends. In fact, just such...