Word: affections
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...could easily lead to a more heavily armed army of robbers and assaulters who will fire first and ask questions later." Jens Ludwig, a professor of pubic policy at Georgetown University, contends that the book does not account for fluctuating factors like poverty levels and policing techniques, which might affect crime rates even more than gun laws...
...price, the appropriate cleric would perform merit-building practices like prayer, penance or pilgrimage on one's behalf. The sale of such "indulgences" financed many a medieval cathedral. Retreating to his New Testament, Luther considered St. Paul's letter to the Romans. Human "works," preached Paul, could not affect anyone's eternal life; "Justification"--the state of being right with God --was based on a single principle. "On the principle of works?" Paul asked. "No, but on the principle of faith." And faith resulted not from human striving but from God's grace...
...course it is Beijing's bosses who are responsible for making their nation what former U.S. diplomat Chas. W. Freeman calls a "uniquely credible miscreant," guilty of behavior that deserves to be picked on. But the natural suspicion and swings in sentiment that always affect U.S. attitudes toward China have been hyperamplified by a convergence of election-year politics, Republican interparty fissures, and a string of unfortunate events, like the allegations of illicit Chinese campaign contributions, Indian and Pakistani nuclear blasts and reports of a possible national-security breach in U.S. satellite sales to China. Some of the steam...
...believe I'm arrogant doesn't really matter. My sole concern is for my two little girls, abducted illegally by their mother, my ex-wife, nearly a year ago. My heart breaks when I ponder where they are running to now. How will this end? How will this emotionally affect two innocent children? What lessons are we teaching our children? Run if you can't get your...
...never asserted that my election indicated any sort of great political or social paradigm shift as you seem to believe. I think it meant only one thing: Harvard students believe that at least one person on campus ought to be concerned with those elements of student life which daily affect them. I think it is fantastic for the editorial board, the Progressive Student Labor Movement, and the Harvard-Radcliffe Republican Club to lobby for whatever external social issues concern them. And I don't think our society can ever have enough of that type of lobbying...