Word: token
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...demands from its soldiers an old-fashioned marriage, a vow to love, honor and obey. Love, full of sacrifice and hardship, to the point of risking your life and taking other people's lives in your hands, in the belly of your bomber. Honor, through every large and small token of respect: keep your hair short, press your shirt, shine your shoes, salute your superior. And above all, obey without question even the rules that break your heart...
...same token, there is never any pressure to feel as if one has to be a part of the activities offered. After all, most students decide to come HLS for the somewhat more grandiose purpose of entering the legal profession (or some derivative thereof), and there is, admittedly, at least some work that must be completed in order to achieve that goal...
...marking of bodies, while an interesting idea, should have been fleshed out to be more than a token experimental gesture. A beefier attempt would have had heavy gothic make-up on the actors or would have physically marked Baal as separate from the rest. For besides Baal and his lover Ekart (Ryan McCarthy '98) all others are either just bodies or symbols with little or no individuality...
Before Game One, Chicago Mayor Richard Daley bet New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani a Chicago deep dish pizza pie against a New York subway token that the Bulls win in six or less. Rudy agreed, and even threw in a coupon for a Papaya King...
...members now in jail or dead, the group is little more than a memory of a time when terrorist hijackings were common. Since little happens in Syrian-controlled Lebanon without the approval of Damascus, chances are the arrests were carried out with Syria's consent -- perhaps as a goodwill token from President Hafez Assad. Among the five Japanese and two Lebanese suspects arrested is Kozo Okamoto, who was sentenced to life in prison after the Lod bombing, but later released in a prisoner exchange between Israelis and Palestinians...