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Gross said in July that he will probably conduct a search at the end of this school year to fill whichever post Kidd decides to abandon...
...would Kitano trade in his pistols for samurai swords and tackle the legacy of a cinema legend? Why abandon the complexity of his recent films to remake an action franchise that he admits he "did not particularly" like? The answer is simple: because he was ordered to do so by a 76-year-old strip-club owner and former nude dancer named Chieko Saito, known to her family, friends and everyone else around her as Mama...
...Absolutely not! Judge Roy Moore is not the party at fault in this systematic degradation of our nation's religious foundation. Indeed the parties that should be punished are Judge Thompson [the U.S. district court judge who ordered the monument's removal] and secularists that would abandon the Constitutionally guaranteed freedoms of religious expression and protection of state sovereignty. Steven G. Poyzer Canandaigua...
Experimentation sometimes produces disasters, like the chocolate-and cinnamon-flavored fries introduced and quickly shelved by Heinz last year. But for food purveyors, taking risks has become essential as weight-conscious and fry-fatigued consumers abandon the deep-fried spud. Americans ordered 900 million fewer servings of fries over the 12 months ending in May, a sharp 10% drop compared with the previous year, according to research to be published in October by the NPD Group, a market-research firm that has been charting American eating patterns for 18 years. That's a lot of taters, and it represents...
...wandering around in drug-vending coffeeshops and smartshops and wading through brothels and sex shows—it beat my summers chained to the computer. To drink absinthe, behave brazenly and rudely to strangers in bars; to play mindgames with thieving landlords; to hop trains and planes solo, to abandon compulsive scheduling, at least for a time—it taught me something that despite an abstract knowledge of it, still managed to come as a shock: Harvard is not the entire world...