Word: raison
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...little over a month ago, an internal Bush Administration memo written by National Security Adviser Stephen J. Hadley wondered somewhat naively whether Maliki might be a "witting participant" in "an aggressive push to consolidate Shia power and influence" in Baghdad. Shi'ite power, after all, is the raison d'etre of the ruling Shi'ite alliance; Sistani ensured that all the major Shi'ite parties contested the election as a bloc in order to guarantee the Shi'ites a share of political power congruent with their demographic majority. Shi'ite-power, far from a hidden agenda, was the winning ticket...
...Picturehouse 1.5 Stars Move over, Martha Stewart—exotic is the new plain, and weird is the new normal. Unfortunately, each is proving that it can be just as boring as its predecessor. “Taking the center from the margins” seems to be the raison d’être of several of the best films produced in culture-war-America over the past year, from the spectacular “Brokeback Mountain” to the delightful “Little Miss Sunshine.” But director Steven Shainberg and screenwriter Erin Cressinda...
...that the biggest picture has changed. It's still so easy to fall in love with the raison d'etre of one's own father or mother. Medicine is undeniably a mission, a calling. Yet young people must feel it - each somehow attracted to his or her specialty, one's own nook in the grand house of medicine. I still know...
...violin in Plan B for the Type A’s—an all-girl rock band made up of five Harvard seniors—and is a member of the Harvard College Alliance of Rock and Roll. But despite these other activities, design has always been her raison d’être...
...report induced a good deal of eye-rolling: Not only was the center’s raison d’être dubious, but the proposed floor plan was incorrigibly lame...