Word: sentimentals
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...diseases that doesn't restrict strenuous physical activity or general good cheer. He decides to renovate his house and his disaffected son (Hayden Christensen) by employing him on the job. Will they reconcile? Will the house get finished before George croaks? Will the movie end in an orgy of sentiment? Why do we bother...
...wishing.” This principle underscored her and Lennon’s anti-war campaign of 1969, in which they erected giant billboards in prominent locations in cities across the world reading “WAR IS OVER!” as if simply endorsing the sentiment would effect an empirical change. While Ono’s conceptual pieces can be highly intellectual, the billboard campaign demonstrates the extreme idealism upon which her political works are based—an idealism that flourished in the 1960s but is far less credible today. In the documentary of the infamous...
...Problems in Pakistan: Pakistan, which serves as a key staging ground for U.S. special forces, has so far contained anti-American sentiment, but General Musharraf's regime may be feeling the heat. A helicopter ferrying U.S. Special Forces reportedly came under ground fire from within Pakistan last weekend. And Friday's Muslim prayers saw the biggest anti-American demonstrations yet on the streets of Karachi. Fearing a mounting backlash, Musharraf wants the bombing to end by Ramadan. After all, right now he faces large demonstrations once a week after Friday prayers, but during Ramadan many more Muslims go to mosque...
...heart and soul of anti-living wage sentiment on campus isn’t really organized,” he said...
Could there be an instrumental motive underlying the timing of Hoxby’s resignation from the committee? It appears so. Rather than allow the committee to do its work, Hoxby seems to have opted for tactics so beloved among conservative ideologues: when losing the struggle for public sentiment on issues of social justice and moral responsibility in the “free market” of ideas, what better way to stop the fight for a while than to invoke charges of McCarthyism against those who disagree with...