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Williams explained that each of her songs "tunnels through the experience of being a woman." The poetry resonates in me: "I am the brainchild, I am the mortar, with a plastic trophy and an eating disorder and a vision as big as a great big wall, and they tell me that I'll move forward for the good of us all." This illustrates the dilemma women face, as we are expected to be the mortar which holds society and family together, but also encouraged to move forward, though unable to see past the aesthetic images which also colonize our minds...
...brainchild of three friends, the site offers comparisons of textbook prices for Harvard College courses from five different online bookstores...
...Buchanan, who makes such a fine meal of the scraps of the Republican and Democratic feast as a pundit ? but precious little as a wannabe pol ? wants to switch. The battle is on for the soul of Ross Perot's brainchild, and the question being asked by the more serious elements in the Ventura camp is whether Pitchfork Pat has a reformist bone in his body. "I haven't heard his political reform agenda," Minnesota Reform party chairman Dean Barkley told the Washington Post. "I still see him having that abortion issue and that social agenda on the front burner...
Executive Jet is the brainchild of Richard Santulli, 54, a former leasing specialist from Goldman Sachs who still runs the company. What Santulli figured out is this: How many jets and how many owners do you need to ensure that each owner can be guaranteed a jet with as little as four hours' notice, anytime? Priced to make a buck, of course. Customers do not buy a particular plane so much as the right to fly on a jet of the class they have purchased. NetJets owners can purchase a fraction of a plane up to the whole thing...
...Innocence Project is the brainchild of New York lawyers Barry Scheck and Peter Neufeld. Both gained fame as part of O.J. Simpson's legal "dream team," and Scheck returned to the media spotlight as the defense attorney for British au pair Louise Woodward. But the Innocence Project dates back to an earlier time, when Scheck and Neufeld were overworked and underpaid Legal Aid lawyers in the South Bronx. Like most defense lawyers, they believed the system made mistakes. And earlier than most, they realized that the hot new technology of DNA testing could revolutionize criminal defense by providing scientific proof...