Word: sentimentalized
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...That sentiment reverberated around Israel last week as the latest outrage in the seven-month Aqsa intifadeh touched nerves already dangerously raw. The brutality of the murders raised ever louder demands that Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon strike harder at the Palestinians. Israeli newspapers expressed shock that surpassed their anger seven weeks ago when a Palestinian sniper killed Shalhevet Pass, a 10-month-old in the Israeli settlement in Hebron. It somehow seemed worse that this time the victims were not Hebron extremists, but peaceable people of Tekoa in Gush Etzion...
...will implement the energy policy are never mentioned, the recommendations that are neither redundant nor fluff generally sound their factories' morning whistle (The only sector mentioned is the auto industry, which, the report states, should not be "negatively impacted" by any new Corporate Average Fuel Economy standards. A worthy sentiment, but "negatively impacted" itself looms as fuel for later debate...
...taxi driver who worked his way into owning a fleet of cars and a string of pachinko parlors from which he amassed a fortune. Perhaps mindful of the discrimination faced by Koreans, when the young Obara - then known by his Korean name Kim - was asked to pen a farewell sentiment in his junior-high class yearbook, he wrote: "Upbringing is more important than family name...
...John Adams, Class of 1755, a graduate of this great University, who declared that it is better “that many guilty persons should escape unpunished than one innocent should suffer.” I hope that 200 years later we still share that noble sentiment. But we need not pay that price. For in sparing the innocent, we also minimize the possibility that the guilty go free...
Offner’s sentiment was echoed by a number of the speakers who, though they acknowledged that Harvard had not implemented a living wage, said that the reopening of the issue represented a major triumph...