Word: teared
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...promising to solve all problems in time. The situation could get worse in every one of these countries. And keep in mind another element here, the Andy Warhol line about everyone being a celebrity for 15 minutes. Well, Eastern Europe has had its 15 minutes. But you can't tear the Berlin Wall down a second time...
...about typecasting! Rose broke Cobb's long-standing record for most hits (4,191) in 1985 and went on to collect 4,256 before retiring in 1986; like Cobb, he had a reputation as a hell raiser on the field and off. While Rose never sharpened his spikes to tear up infielders, both enjoyed good fistfights with opponents. For good measure, Cobb was also accused of gambling. If Rose's movie career takes off, maybe next time he can play yet another celebrated baseball reprobate: Pete Rose...
...forgive. Evil sometimes means the thing we cannot understand, and cannot forgive. The Steinberg case in New York City, in which a lawyer battered his six-year-old foster daughter Lisa to death, is an example. Ivan Karamazov speaks of a Russian nobleman who had his hounds tear an eight-year-old boy to pieces in front of the boy's mother because he threw a stone at one of the dogs. Karamazov asks the bitter question that is at the heart of the mystery of evil, "What have children to do with it, tell me, please...
...work to their ideas about improving public schools. "I think that my dad is sort of a seasoned moderate compared to me," she says. "Principally we have the same ideas about teaching kids, but we differ somewhat on political issues. I tend to say, 'We need to tear it all down and start over again,' and he says, 'No, you don't really need to do that...
...recalls "probably the most radical thing we did": one warm spring night, after the Metropolitan District Commission announced that it wanted to tear down trees along Memorial Drive to build overpasses, a group of students walked down to the river and began chanting "Save the Sycamores" in protest...