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Word: wishing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Some international students say they fear that the new law will further define a role for the HIO that the office does not wish to assume...

Author: By Marc J.ambinder, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: New Laws Complicate Foreign Students' Lives | 11/24/1997 | See Source »

...maybe to the judge himself. The truth is horrible. It is too much to deal with--that someone could be abusive intentionally and, above all, to a baby. You can give excuses for this behavior, but it is still murder. No one can imagine what she was thinking--I wish I could understand it. It is nothing a normal person would do. And it was not a one-time event. She is also responsible for his broken arm. It makes me wonder what else she did to him that didn't leave a mark. This was no accident--a baby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ONE MOTHER'S STORY | 11/24/1997 | See Source »

...Louise become the hero and I become the villain? What is the real issue here? It is child abuse and child murder. I strive in a lot of different directions in life, and now suddenly that striving to be good seems to be bad. The only decision I wish I had made differently was [the decision] not to fire Louise. I wish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ONE MOTHER'S STORY | 11/24/1997 | See Source »

...guard, and employs a ruthlessly loyal security force that has quashed multiple coup attempts since 1991. Richard Haass, who directed Middle Eastern affairs at the National Security Council during the Gulf War, says, "I have yet to see anything remotely persuasive about how you could take out Saddam. A wish is not a policy." One suggestion: million-dollar rewards have helped the U.S. catch foreign terrorists by giving their confederates an incentive to snitch. What about $500 million, the cost of only 400 cruise missiles, for delivering Saddam to a war-crimes tribunal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHOULD WE JUST KILL HIM? | 11/24/1997 | See Source »

...what?" cry the faithful. Midnight was a big book, with lots of great stories. That kind of thing can't be compressed. And, as one of the faithful, I agree. Indeed, I wish more of the movie had been devoted to those great stories instead of long, lingering shots of John Cusack's pretty face...

Author: By Scott E. Brown, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Midnight' in the Garden of Good and Eastwood | 11/21/1997 | See Source »

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