Word: sentimentals
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...Mister" Rogers, after all, never "Fred." He wore a tie even when he dressed down. He also respected children's intelligence, and while he used the Land of Make-Believe to teach lessons, he never puffed up kids with false promises and fantasy. There is no more un-Disneyfied sentiment in children's pop culture than the title of his song Wishes Don't Make Things Come True...
...worldwide protests on February 15th. Wednesday afternoon, a White House spokesperson (reached through the media office) was similarly unimpressed by the "virtual march." "Phone calls are a useful tool for people to express their opinions," she said, "but it's not an objective or scientific way to measure public sentiment...
Apply this thinking to Iraq. There is one big, evil dictator running things his way. But if we take over, the reasoning goes, we might make a big mess—we could provoke worldwide anti-American sentiment, slaughter Iraqi civilians and impose some unspecified form of American military rule on the country. But it’ll be our mess, which for us, somehow, appears safer. And, to an American troop on the ground in Iraq, once the US is in control, Bush (and the rest of us) can stop caring...
...governor who accepts the role of single-handedly righting the Japanese economy through monetary policy alone is setting himself up for a long fall. Contrary to the current sentiment in Tokyo, there is only so much impact a central-bank governor can have on a dysfunctional economy in the first place. And in Japan, the new governor will quickly discover that more than half the arrows in his quiver have already been spent...
...writing to express our displeasure with the statement concerning La Vida at Harvard in the Crimson Wisdom section of your Feb. 14 issue. To say the least, it is as of yet uncertain what exactly was intended by the downward arrow and the sentiment “that’s just loco,” but there is no question regarding its offensive nature. The explanations we have been given are not up to par, and do not absolve the Crimson of guilt in this error. This statement ridicules the Latino community’s efforts to gain personal...