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...current report also cites "chronic underrepresentation of Blacks on faculties and administration in higher education...
Skiing conjures up images of fresh mountain air and cool, clean white slopes. In Vermont, however, these crystalline visions have been replaced by a less refreshing proposition: several of the state's ski resorts, hard pressed by a chronic lack of water at high altitudes, want to pump treated sewage through their snowmaking equipment. So far Vermont's environmental conservation agency has not approved the innovation. The proposal has set off a battle between environmentalists and resort owners. One bumper sticker reads, KILLINGTON: WHERE THE AFFLUENT MEET THE EFFLUENT. Killington officials and local developers are not amused. C.E. ("Cowboy") Snodgrass...
Malik has a few problems of his own: he is a chronic sleepwalker and an irrepressible imp. When Mama (Mirjana Karanovic) snags a few intimate moments alone with Father, Malik feigns a fit of sleepwalking; Mama resignedly gets out of bed and lullabies the boy to sleep. When she returns to make love to her husband, she finds him asleep. When Malik crawls into bed between his parents, Father embraces him, and Mama is left awake and alone. In the film's loveliest scene, Malik sleepwalks out of his bed, down the stairs, out of the house, down the street...
...years ago, is now a Missouri ghost town; Holbrook, Mass., is discovering that it has a serious problem, but perhaps not a catastrophe; in Casmalia, Calif., toxins arrive each day at a modern treatment site, producing annoying fumes and fears about the future. People from all three places share chronic anxiety. Are they sick? Will they become sick? In all three there is anger, at businesses, at government, at unsympathetic neighbors. Yet like Tolstoy's unhappy families, each town is unhappy...
This case was not, as argued by Lakian and his confused Manhattan attorney. Norman Ray Grutman about The Globe's reckless abuse of power and its vicious vendetta against all Republicans. It was about John R. Lakian's chronic problem with telling the whole truth and to continue doing so once the verdict came out that showed that. The Globe was right and Lakian was wrong...