Word: sentimentals
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...Dancing is about show-biz pros turning amateur (there's not even a cash prize) and daring to be amateurish. Dance, for most of us, is about letting go, being inept and not caring. And Dancing, from its laughed-off missteps to its militantly dated production values, is that sentiment lustily, dorkily embodied. It is not the most original, brilliant show of the year, or even the month. But who doesn't enjoy a June wedding? --With reporting by Desa Philadelphia/Los Angeles
...That sentiment is a long way from current constitutional jurisprudence. It also happens to be quite distant from the military norm. While irritations do occur (a group of evangelical chaplains has been suing the Navy for years on claims of alleged career discrimination), Evangelicals have usually found ways to give witness without offending the military's doggedly maintained principle of pluralism. This week's academy report may provide hints as to whether this admittedly tricky model can survive as Evangelicalism becomes more assertive and its critics more defensive. Meanwhile, if the report is released as expected, academy personnel will have...
...Young says his antideportations group, Athlone Families Together, is prepared to take a case to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg: "People are fiercely determined that justice will be done." While much of Europe is considering restricting immigrants, the Irish, it seems, want to keep theirs. That sentiment was unheard-of five years ago, when the government began housing asylum seekers in hostels and detention centers around the country. As busloads of African and East European immigrants arrived in villages that were homogeneously Irish - and 100% white - many residents feared exotic diseases, rising crime rates and falling property...
Many students still express the sentiment that the thesis-writing process is arduous and should guarantee a Latin flourish...
...mail sent to the Crimson last week, Tribe reiterated his sentiment that an inadvertent mistake has led to an unduly harsh character judgment, amounting to a “false and defamatory contrary impression that some who do or ought to know better have, for their own reasons, deliberately created...