Word: avoiding
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2000
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
McKean, who is also a Crimson editor, also criticized administrators for attempting to avoid the protests. Administrators said they decided to close the Office of Human Resources early yesterday, before the start of the rally, to avoid possible confrontations with protesters...
McKean, who is also a Crimson editor, also criticized administrators for attempting to avoid the protests. Administrators said they decided to close the Office of Human Resources early yesterday, before the start of the rally, to avoid possible confrontations with protesters...
...have no quarrel with people who avoid eating particular or all meats because of religious or moral reasons--vegetarians, Buddhists, et al. For that matter, I'm willing to concede that taste is subjective enough that people may just not like the taste of organ meat. My issue is with those people who pull faces at eating certain parts out of some false notion of intrinsic 'uncleanliness,' and, worse than that, to consider the very act of eating offal beyond their ken, beyond their realm of comprehension. I call this the 'how could you eat those parts?' school of thought...
...organic relationship with food is eating meat that looks like meat, slightly pink, with blood. It's not bloodthirsty; it's just an acknowledgement of gastronomical truth. Of course, the dining hall is hardly a good location to start scouting for meat cooked rare. I suspect this is to avoid being sued: no one gets food poisoning from overcooked meals. And I'm not sure I would fully trust rare meat in such a situation of mass handling anyway. But the next time, dear reader, you find yourself in a quality restaurant, try ordering rare. Or order fish cheeks...
...other had, he will avoid placing his regime in peril. Conflict with Israel has propped up Assad's authoritarian rule; peace will undermine a pillar of the regime's legitimacy. Worse yet for the Assad regime, peace on the Israeli front and the security arrangements that come with it will invariably mean redeploying the Syrian army from the Golan Heights closer to Damascus. Coups occur when troops mill around the capital, not when they are stationed far off on the Golan. No one knows this brutal fact better than Assad, who himself seized power by coup d'etat...