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...designed to open up Western land with federal water for small farmers and their families. The intent, as Theodore Roosevelt's first reclamation chief, F.H. Newell, made clear in 1905, was to help the little guy: "It is not to irrigate the lands which now belong to large corporations...but [to put] land...into the hands of the small owner, whereby the man with a family can get enough land to support that family...
...business of chronicling celebrity life. It's just something he, like a dwindling few of his fellow citizens, is trying to live with (and in his case, make a living from) as rationally as possible. He guesses that Robin's self-consciousness, her sense that she doesn't belong in the same room with the rich and famous, will play well on TV. She's as addled as anyone in her audience would be in fast company, so of course viewers identify with her. And grant her stardom...
...many injured athletes, initial pain anddisappointment usually gives way to optimism andresolve. The road to recovery for Milbert will belong and strenuous, but its bumps are at leastfamiliar. She is already anticipating long hoursin the training room, but at the end of it allpictures herself lacing up her skates sometimeearly next year...
Problem: You start going steady with a hottie named Tom Exenberger and his parents very much want to meet you. They decide to take you and Tom out to dinner at the fancy club they belong to. Your brand-new sleek-looking black dress is coming off great and things are going smoothly until just after the appetizer, when you accidentally, and quite loudly, release some gas you've been trying to hold in for the past half hour. Yuck! Here's what to do to get out of this jam while saving face...
...unwelcome as members" part goes, I have no desire to belong to an all-male final club, just as I do not want to belong to the Dins, the Kroks or the football team. Now let's address "amusement." Women go to final clubs to have a good time. When women choose to go to final clubs, they are choosing to go someplace where they will never actually belong, but where they may be able to dance, play pool and have fun--activities a little too rare at Harvard...