Word: acted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...perversity exists behind the desire to drop everything you've devoted your life to up until now in favor of something that you are uniquely unsuited for. What sort of person carries these unfulfilled passions inside of them? What strange influence leads some of these people to actually act them...
...Shoppe (28 JFK St., Cambridge; 354-8765; Monday-Saturday 9 a.m.-9 p.m., Sunday 11 a.m.-6 p.m.). Ye olde shoppe is cyber-savvy, with a computer which answers questions which can dispense detailed medical information. Energy pills sound sexy, but they're basically just caffeine (think Jessie Spano). Act quick and you can take advantage of their 20 to 40 percent-off sale which ends today...
...with the words of my senile yet seemingly credible eighth grade math teacher Mrs. Kelly, I'd have to agree that "the more senses you bring into the learning process, the more fruitful will be the learning." Marking up textbooks, thus, is not a malicious act of destruction. Rather, marginalia are a personal art form wherein highlighting, underlining and even doodling trigger specific parts of your brain. The fact remains that we don't just remember ideas; we remember colors, tastes and sounds. Bet you still remember those magenta koolats you wore to the 6th grade dance. For shit...
...least one more murder. That?s the line from the Christian Coalition, members of which were on hand Thursday as the House passed a bill that would make it a federal offense to harm a fetus while committing a federal crime. Under the coalition-backed Unborn Victims of Violence Act, McVeigh, one of the perpetrators in the Oklahoma City bombing case, would have one more offense on his rap sheet because a pregnant woman was among the casualties of the explosion. While no one can predict what will happen in the Senate, the House approval caught some people off guard...
...defendants in the Virginia rape case are charged under the Violence Against Women Act, but contend that the commerce clause is not a sound basis for the act, and therefore that the case against them is invalid. The court?s deliberations will be watched carefully by lawmakers, because if the commerce clause is rejected as a viable basis for anti-discrimination law, it could affect not only the Violence Against Women Act but also countless other civil rights laws. ?Every major civil rights law on the federal books was enacted under the interstate commerce clause of the Constitution,? says Sanders...