Word: raison
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...General Assembly last September, he felt a halo around him and for "those 27 or 28 minutes, the leaders of the world did not blink ... as if a hand was holding them there and it opened their eyes to receive" his message. He believes that the Islamic revolution's raison d'être is to prepare the way for the messianic redemption, which in his eschatology is preceded by worldwide upheaval and chaos. How better to light the fuse for eternal bliss than with a nuclear flame...
...this spring (probable asking price: $500 to $1,000), and computer makers are scrambling to produce new PCs equipped to play DVD-ROMs. What's less clear is how quickly Hollywood studios will clamber aboard the DVD bandwagon and release their movies on the untested new format. DVD's raison d'etre, after all, is to send VHS tapes and laser discs, the studios' cash cows, the way of all eight-tracks. This week's blizzard of dvd-themed press releases at the Las Vegas show should help reveal how quickly the new kid on the block might become...
This in itself is not enough. If Woodbridge is to remain in any way essential, it needs to get back to basicsand get active. If, as its constitution states, Woodbridges raison dtre is the support and enhancement of the international community at Harvard, then it needs to sponsor more eventsdances, cultural lectures and concertsto this end. The newly elected leaders of Woodbridge must make more of an attempt to facilitate interaction between American students and their international peers...
...concerned. I was totally deluded. I had made myself believe that I was an actress. I was showing true life as it really was -including actual sex as it really happened -instead of the phony stuff that you got from Hollywood. That was my raison d'etre throughout the whole thing. It was okay; I was okay; I wasn't a slut...
...Meetings like this one, convened by the support group Dads in Distress, happen almost every day across Australia and New Zealand. The raison d'?tre of many of the countries' several hundred men's organizations is a conviction that the system crushes men after their marriages fall apart; that a two-punch combination of vindictive ex-partners and courts that favor mothers in custodial disputes is destroying fathers' relationships with their children. DiD meetings begin with a minute's silence for the five men who commit suicide in Australia each day, on the assumption that many of them have acted...