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...With the Vampire, in turn, follows Lestat (Tom Cruise), a rich, pale solo-flyer who cannot marry anyone because, well, he's undead. Bear with me. As a way out of lonely misery, he bites and converts dashing Louis (Pitt) and encourages him in turn to vampirize and thus "adopt" a young, beautiful, but ill child named Claudia (Kirsten Dunst...
...employer Orson (Jerry Ruiz '00) doesn't realize that he's dealing with two different people when he hires them: he thinks they're both a boy named "Charlie." Because Cockburn and Gambuto sport such similar attire--black T-shirts, vinyl pants and Jacques Cousteau-type knit hats--and adopt the same earnest tone of voice, Orson's mistake is actually credible. Sebastian and Viola are equally unaware that they are both working for Orson: each presumes the other dead. "Charlie" acts as romantic go-between for Orson, carrying the latter's love-letters to the seductive, sequin-clad club...
Applying to the fund means lost economic sovereignty, which is no small matter for any country, especially a developing one in which colonialism is still a fresh memory. The fund's recommendations also mean pain for the poor and working class when governments adopt the fund's austere recommendations. Those usually include slashing budget deficits, which often means higher taxes and lower social spending, an end to subsidies on things like food and fuel, and privatization of inefficient state-owned industries, with the inevitable worker layoffs...
...precisely in the justice system do we find the arena of the bulk of death penalty discourse. Even those who have no moral opposition to the state's disposal of its worst criminals doubt whether society ought to adopt such a powerful and dangerous weapon. After all, death is permanent: if we put someone in jail for life, we can always free him if new evidence crops up; but if we execute him, we cannot undo any subsequently discovered injustice. However, this is a difference in degree, not in kind. We must consider it a societal tragedy if we wrongfully...
...imprint of Joe's and my genes on a small face; my thoughts dwelled on the imprint of a small hand on my cheek. By the time we had sat out the seemingly interminable three-month wait to see a fertility specialist, I was thinking I'd like to adopt. But with Joe not yet ready to consider that option, I proceeded deeper into the fertility labyrinth...