Word: tokenized
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...These kids aren’t playing for individual awards,” Stone said. “I’m disappointed, but on the same token, it’s not what it’s about for this group of kids...
...October 1709, it commemorates Korea's victory over invading Japanese troops in the late 16th century. How did the memorial make its way from what is now North Korea to this controversial shrine? After the Russo-Japanese War, an army major general presented it to the Emperor as a token of Japan's victory. "It is a shocking thing that this memorial is at Yasukuni, of all places," says Masahiro Saotome, a professor of Korean history at the University of Tokyo. "Understandably, it is very annoying to Koreans...
...reduction as I expect to have in the rest of the year. Bono was quite right to remind delegates that most of the demonstrators outside the Waldorf are passionate in their search for a better world, that only a few of them are looking for trouble. By the same token, most of those inside the hall, if my experience at these conferences is a guide, are genuinely looking for ways to spread the benefits of globalization more widely. After one day, the degree of common ground is encouraging...
...serves as a reminder that for Harvard to continue to claim the title of being one of the world’s greatest academic institutions, it must not uncaringly ignore a large portion of the world’s people in its course offerings. It is a reminder that token gestures are not sufficient...
...same token, with the total collapse of the Taliban, everything has changed. Omar has lost his robe. The Arab street is silent. The joy is gone. And recruitment? The Pakistani mullahs who after Sept. 11 had urged hapless young men to join the Taliban in fighting America and now have to answer to bereaved parents are facing ostracism and disgrace. Al-Qaeda agents roaming the madrasahs of Pakistan and the poorer neighborhoods of the Arab world will have a much harder sell. The syllogism of invincibility that sustained Islamic fanaticism is shattered...