Word: arens
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Even if you do believe that the planets have a gravitational pull on people, and that that pull somehow effects personality and fate, Kirshner contends that astrological predictions today aren't even based on the proper position of the planets...
...pole points has changed significantly means that the constellations actually are not in the same places on the same days as they were. Or rather the sun is not in the same place on the same day as it was 400 years ago. What that means is: astrologists aren't even talking about where the planets actually are. They're talking about where they are in this conventional picture of astrology, and where the sun and moon and the other planets are. They don't use the actual positions...
There just aren't many like him anymore. Sure, the San Diego Chicken barnstorms around the country, but the man performing hides behind a costume. There was no barrier between Patkin and his audience...
...fact that there aren't any [women] doesn't tell the whole story," Rudenstine says...
...they received a tip that the suspect was carrying a gun. In the other case, the Fourth District of Illinois upheld a 31-year-old federal statute - passed by Congress just two years after the Miranda decision - that said voluntarily given confessions are admissible evidence, even when the accused aren't read their rights. The law had never before been tested in court, but the Fourth District opined that Miranda was a ruling on procedure, and not a constitutional interpretation, and therefore need not be upheld. "Despite the ambiguity, courts around the country basically agreed with Miranda and have...