Set aside the "strict, harsh, cruel" sense, expressed in the name of Severus Snape, the mean schoolteacher in the Harry Potter series.
I feel such sadness for the OMM kids who have to witness such hate, especially when that hate is expressed in the name of God.
"We welcome one who saw fit to express remorse in the name of the Catholic church for the terrible deeds committed against the Jewish people during the course of the past 2,000 years," Israel's chief rabbi declared.
To make matters worse, the administration's two-sentence statement later that day expressing regret, in the name of a National Security Council spokesman, came across as bare-bones and insufficient to undo the hurt.
This sort of argument is precisely why a Christian minister like Rev. Graham might have the temerity to declare someone who has publicly and repeatedly expressed belief "in the name of the son of God" (3:18) to be "not really a Christian".
Wachovia considered removing the PNB sign in 2003 to replace it with its own signage, but, in response, some Philadelphians expressed nostalgia for the name of the former Philadelphia institution and hoped the sign would stay.
Serge Klarsfeld, the country's most famous Nazi hunter and Holocaust memorialist, expressed his indignation in the name of the Association of Sons and Daughters of Jews Deported from France.
"I would like to express my great appreciation in the name of the people," Haniyah said.
According to this model, freedom is to express an ego-desire save in the name of will arising from an individual in "the state of nature" where and when there is no external constraint.
Nor do we have to watch Sarah Palin, with her pointy finger and false dichotomies, unblinkingly accept a seat on the express train to the White House in the name of gender equality.
States may continue to express regret for what they did in the name of fraudulent science and social hypocrisy, but the stain really doesn't go away.
