Word: properness
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...boys of Old Quincy F “didn’t want to piss anyone off,” according to Kim, and so they took the flag down after receiving the sternly worded e-mail. But a few days later, the flag went back up in its proper direction, illuminated at night with an outdoor floodlight. Although the flag had to come down a second time for spring break, Kim says they plan on putting it back up soon...
...summit was a step toward Arab acceptance of Israel's legitimacy, but the terms of Abdullah's proposal remain unacceptable to Israel: Sharon has no intention of giving back all the occupied territories, and the Israelis reject the idea that Palestinian refugees have the right to return to Israel proper. Moreover, Sharon fumed at the Arabs' failure to condemn the Passover attack...
...East Jerusalem, allows Israel to gobble up parts of the West Bank to accommodate the Israelis who have moved there and tells the Palestinian refugees from the 1948 war that they can forget about their U.N.-sanctioned right to go back to homes that are now part of Israel proper. On some level, Arafat may understand that all these compromises must be made before Palestine is born, but they won't happen on his watch. At this point he's much more interested in being a hero than in being a leader...
...dangers to society who need to be locked up in prison. In fact, prison often provides easier access to certain more dangerous drugs, thus perpetuating, rather than solving, the drug epidemic that faces this country today. Decriminalization would likely result in federal regulation to ensure an age limit, a proper time and place for such use, and civil penalties such as fines and community service for failure to abide by these guidelines...
...first domestic church was planted in Chicago and the first international church in London. By the following year, a New York City church was created (in what McKean refers to as “a metropolis of 18 million lost souls”), and Sunday services in Boston proper were drawing 1,000 people. In 1986 the BCC planted churches in Asia and Africa, in 1991 the 100th church was planted in Moscow and in 1994 the Los Angeles and New York branches were, according to the BCC at least, the top two fastest-growing churches in North America...