Word: sentimentals
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...cover the royal birth because of her distaste for the imperial system. "It's nice to celebrate the birth, since they have been waiting so long. But it's just a baby. The royal family still has to bear responsibility for World War II." Acutely aware of this lingering sentiment, the royals and the bureaucrats who manage the royal family worked hard to remake the imperial image over the past four decades. It's no accident that Akihito picked a commoner, Michiko, to be his wife, and that she was constantly photographed wearing an apron and surrounded by pots...
...days. The prices of oil, gold and bonds were sent soaring. The London FTSE, the Paris CAC and the German DAX all took double-digit losses in the first few days. By the end of September the news crossing the wires was grim and grimmer: corporate profits and consumer sentiment plummeting, unemployment shooting upward...
...that the U.S. would have bottomed by the end of December. But Sept. 11 has compressed into a short period of time things that would have taken months to happen. It compressed monetary policy and corporate restructuring. It quickened the blowout in markets and catalyzed the crash in consumer sentiment. So rather than a long and frustrating U-shaped bottom, we're getting a jolting V. In Japan, which has no margin to absorb shocks, the V will be particularly sharp going down. China will stand out like a beacon of light in Asia as its economy grinds ahead...
...right to counsel long predates the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Medieval English common law courts recognized that the accused had to have access to a trusted source of information about the laws in order for the adversarial system of justice to be fair. This sentiment was made explicit by the 6th Amendment, guaranteeing that the accused have access to counsel to conduct his or her defense...
This is unscientific rubbish, of course—myth masquerading as reason, and sentiment pretending to be philosophy. Foes of cloning (and of abortion, further down the line) are often accused of being irrational, of basing their morality on religious dogma rather than hard evidence. But which point of view, one wonders, is more irrational—the view that an individual and unique homo sapiens comes into existence at conception (it does—ask any scientist), or the view that embryos only “become human” when they leave the petri dish and are implanted...