Word: sentimentals
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Schweder expressed a similar sentiment and said the scandal raises questions about the future of the Church...
...closest thing to a professional pacifist, a Gulf War veteran who is trying to rally his brethren against Gulf War II--these are the new faces of the peace movement, a motley collection of activists who would seem to have little chance of changing popular sentiment but have started to make their voices heard all the same. Some protests have been hard to miss, like the Oct. 26 march on Washington that drew 100,000 people. But for months the antiwar movement has been churning in smaller, less clamorous ways. In Dallas antiwar protesters wore yellow ribbons and read poetry...
...Elsewhere in Asia, anti-U.S. sentiment can even outweigh what seem to be more pressing issues. The U.S. has 37,000 troops stationed in South Korea to guard against an assault by the dangerous dictator to the north, Kim Jong Il. A month ago, Kim admitted he had an atomic bomb program. Last week, he cranked up a nuclear reactor capable of producing plutonium. And what was the reaction on the streets of Seoul? There was furious protest?but it was directed at the U.S. embassy after the acquittal of two U.S. servicemen for the accidental killing...
...sentiment is shared by dozens of past and present graduate students and undergraduates...
...private selves. By trying to fit lives into neatly divided parts, we risk becoming little more than walking five-minute prepared statements, so polished that our exteriors become impenetrable. Many people write about the phenomenon of “rolodex-building” at Harvard: the oft-expressed sentiment that we are so concerned with our futures that we lose the raw unpredictability of the present. So often required to distill ourselves into personal statements and choreographed answers, whittled down to bare statistics, we lose our better, less articulate selves...