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...illusions, making it difficult for the audience to feel for her misfortunes. Likewise, Appel's Stanley rises to moments of animal force, but these pass as quickly as they come; Appel flits between an appealing, carnal alternative to the decaying Southern gentry of the Belle Reve and a brutish cartoon of an abusive husband. Of the three main characters, the most appealing is Nichols's Stella...
UCITA thus addresses two legal controversies, in each case tipping the balance in the law in favor of producers. Click-through licenses allow producers to draw attention away from nasty, brutish and long standard form terms that deprive users of remedies for defective products and eliminate protections of intellectual property...
...local stakeholders to any proposal to remove a dam, no matter how small. But it's striking how, in just two or three decades, the U.S. has gone from building dams to not building dams to taking some of them down. Under serious discussion is the demolition of four brutish structures on the lower Snake River that have macerated millions of young fish...
...central plot of the series revolves around romance: Boring, a young man with a blank face, finds love with a mysterious woman named Wanda, loses her and sort-of finds her again. Boring also gets shot in the head (twice) and stranded on an island with his brutish family. Meanwhile, the world may or may not be ending soon. And did I mention that much of this is hilariously funny...
...better times, college life was filled with endearing letters home for doting Mrs. Smiths to stow away for posterity. And even the most brutish dolt could string together a few paragraphs of mannerly prose. Now, the FAS server crashes and chaos ensues. The inconvenience caused by these infrequent lapses is not the most serious consequence of Harvard's electronic fetish--students' writing, manners, and thinking suffer as well. Would that every day were like last Friday...