Word: soled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...less skilled players benched like Adam Sandler's character in the critically acclaimed major motion picture, The Waterboy. There is a sense on the IM field that people need to prove something--to overcome the stigma of IM athletic mediocrity. IM moguls argue, perhaps rightfully so, that the sole purpose of competition is victory. But in the context of Harvard pressures and stresses, really the fun factor of IM athletics should be most prized...
...Never having married, his sole thrust was music, and then it developed into Harvard music, and then specifically, the development of the department," said Elliot Forbes '40-'41 professor emeritus of music and a close friend of Merritt...
...most common condemnation of homosexuality stems from religious faith. This argument holds that the Bible is the sole moral authority; the Bible says that homosexuality is a sin, so homosexuality is immoral--to posit anything to the contrary would smack of blasphemy...
...cast aside as easily as has become common practice--rather, it must be examined and energetically engaged. Homosexuality might also be opposed cogently by traditionalists. To the suggestion that homosexuality ought to be approved and embraced, the starchy traditionalist might reasonably reply: "Thanks, but heterosexuality as the sole acceptable form of sexual expression has been working out tolerably well over the past couple of millennia--I think that we ought to stick with what we know." The best way to address this argument is to prove beyond a doubt that homosexual union is a viable, albeit heretofore unexplored, version...
...disclose how much money they spend on advertising (or, in the case of independent groups, where the money comes from). This year more than 70 organizations have dumped at least $260 million into political issue ads, according to the Annenberg Public Policy Center. Many have appeared for the sole purpose of knocking off vulnerable candidates or just plain ideological enemies, much to the annoyance of campaign-finance crusaders. Grumbles reform advocate Fred Wertheimer: "It is one of the greatest fictions in American political history that these are [considered] issue ads as opposed to ads for the clear purpose of influencing...