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...unknowable, mysterious race of people who have a completely different world view and want nothing to do with us. They embodied a chaos that America didn't want to acknowledge or be a part of. Mole-men are creatures of pure enlightenment. They read Voltaire and Rousseau. They championed reason and logic long before the surface world did, they took on the scientific method. And they are really the foundational, dare I say grounding, principals upon which our middle class, merchant-based democracy rests. They are the anti-hobos. They have slime dripping from their bodies, sure, and the smell...
...want to stretch out the stroke and get all eight of us rowing unified and powerful.”Radcliffe’s second boat also posted good results, finishing 25th overall. Its time of 17:25.962 placed them just .3 seconds behind defending national champion Brown’s second crew.“I think it’s a really encouraging start to the season, we started strong.” Kendrick said. “We know that the league is so competitive, and we’re out there fighting with them and more than...
...born in 2002. Coordinated nationally by the Office of the Surgeon General, MRC units represent vital community-based volunteers who heed the call to service and are identified, screened, trained and prepared in advance. Their sponsoring organizations, which can include local health departments, emergency management agencies, and other organizations, champion recruitment in local communities...
Moskalenko is a very high-profile target. She has won 27 cases against Russian authorities before the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg and has some 100 more pending. Moskalenko represents the jailed former Yukos CEO Mikhail Khodorkovsky and the former world chess champion Garry Kasparov, now an opposition leader. Moskalenko also represented the journalist Anna Politkovskaya, who was shot to death two years ago as she was entering her house in downtown Moscow. Moskalenko now represents Politkovskaya's family. Moskalenko discovered the poison just as she was set to travel to Moscow to take part in pretrial hearings...
...persuasive power of Stoll’s argument. Indeed, the disjointed nature of the book often makes it difficult to ascertain what exactly Stoll’s argument is. He doesn’t quite engage us in a criticism of overconsumption or materialism, nor does he really champion the need for environmental sustainability. Stoll offers us mostly platitudes, empty truisms about the unnecessary excess of our commercial world. And yet these truisms are not entirely irrelevant. In the 1930s the economist John Maynard Keynes told us that the “ecosnomic problem” is not the permanent...