Word: whim
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...Bible has the logic backward. In ancient times, when a man of royal blood married a foreign woman of royal blood, it wasn't on a romantic whim. It was part of foreign policy, a way to cement relations with another nation. And that cement was strengthened by paying respect to the nation's gods. Solomon's many wives didn't lead to his many gods; his politics led to both the wives and the gods...
...being a normal college student. On top of his regular course load during his freshman year (his illness forced him to scale back slightly on his classes this fall), Friedman worked at a cancer research lab at the Medical School, wrote for the Harvard Science Review, and, on a whim, joined the Hapkido club with Schaaf. “He had this way of keeping things in perspective, putting friendships first, people first,” said Mark A. Isaacson ’11, one of Friedman’s roommates. Though he took his studies seriously?...
...idea on a whim to do kind of a SportsCenter feature," said LevSPN creator Charles T. James '10. "I came up with a logo and a name as kind of a joke...
...associate historian Donald Ritchie says you have to go all the way back to the dawn of F.D.R.'s second term in 1937 to find a President aligned with a filibuster-proof Senate majority that has comparable cohesion and potential to pass significant legislation. "Doing the filibuster at every whim to block us is not [an option], and that makes legislating a lot easier," says New York Democrat Charles Schumer. (See a day-by-day look at the first 100 days of the Obama Administration...
...article betray a lack of interest in the moral questions surrounding embryonic stem-cell research. By relegating to the category of ideology the principle that natural rights place some bounds on acceptable human behavior and scientific investigation, the current administration weakens the protection of the innocent against the whim of the powerful. Human nature being what it is, the assumed benevolence of the strong can be but a temporary check on the descent of our civilization into savagery. ALAN C. O’CONNOR Cambridge, Mass March...