Word: sentimentals
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...band, not a cosmology, and if the group wants to be genuinely uplifting, its members can't just declare themselves positive and leave it at that. Is a line like, "You try to take the best of me/ Go away" really positive? Sure, some kids may empathize with the sentiment, but the lyric hardly provides an adequate means of transcending loneliness and insignificance. Bennington and Shinoda have to find a way to get the message they truly advocate into their songs, and so far they haven't really done the job. For a band so heavily invested in trying...
...Pentagon has a lot of public support, in the U.S. anyway, for treating prisoners any way it sees fit. Is that sentiment posing a problem...
Such an arrangement would represent a dedication by the University to the idea that all Harvard students (and, moreover, all physically capable U.S. citizens) ought to be able to serve their country. This notion of inclusion in service is, in fact, the very sentiment that underlies the issue of ROTC funding. Therefore, should the University choose to extend funding, it ought either to fight “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” by lobbying the Department of Defense and Congress, or it should fund a group that will...
...That sentiment is precisely what worries Beijing. As China gears up for an expected succession struggle in the Politburo later this year, the Communist Party wants to ensure that no group nibbles away at its hold on power. Thus Beijing's severe crackdown on Falun Gong, the Buddhist-exercise movement that spooked China's leaders by getting 10,000 followers to protest in front of Beijing's leadership compound three years ago. The demonstration prompted the hasty passage of a law dictating harsh punishment to anyone involved in a cult?while conveniently failing to define what exactly constitutes one. "Anytime...
...spokesman defended the attack by posing a challenge to Arafat: "What have you to show for meeting the demands of the Zionist entity and America?" And in the eyes of most Palestinians, the answer is nothing. The renewal of attacks by Hamas may be designed precisely to exploit that sentiment, knowing full well that these will bring a fearsome Israeli response down on the heads of Arafat's authority...