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...lawyer--the buying and selling of land comes to stand for American dreams, appetites and origins. Creator Dmitry Lipkin says the pilot was shot in an exurb 40 minutes from New Orleans. "Everything around it was swampland," he recalls, "and in the middle of it was this very orderly chunk of land carved out for development." The setting, he says, captured the "quintessentially American" situation of building wealth out of nothing, imposing civilized façades on wilderness. One character gets her arm eaten by an alligator that emerges from the swamp...
...significant chunk of the Bush vote, the favors Bill Clinton received in the Oval Office were merely a symptom. The disease was the "coarsening of the culture"--the fact that, with the release of the Starr report, fellatio and the creative use of tobacco products were now the subject of the nightly news. And they were right--Lewinskygate did affect the media's content standards--even if, to observers like me, frank, unembarrassed sex talk in public was a good thing. Leaders' examples matter, sniffed candidate Bush. On June 4, the appeals court concurred...
When Blair became prime minister in 1997, he sought to remedy Britain’s rusty socialist state, incurring the wrath of the powerful labor unions. He resisted pressure from the Trades Union Congress—whose members constitute a significant chunk of the Labour party—for repeal of anti-union laws. Union workers demanded that Blair lift prohibitions on secondary picketing, whereby people picket venues unrelated to their protest, such as the private homes of a company’s management; but Blair did not bend...
...anticipated that much of the funding would be available to Harvard-related folks,” he said. The $1.25 billion will consist of $1 billion of state money and $250 million in matching funds from private donors and will be disbursed over a 10-year period. A sizable chunk of the money will be reserved for public institutions. The proposed multi-million dollar Massachusetts Stem Cell Bank and a separate center for RNA research will both be located at the University of Massachusetts, according to plans released by the Governor’s office. The stem cell bank will...
Harvard will rely on Christensen to gain a large chunk of their overall points. The sophomore, who jumped a personal best of six feet last meet, will be trying to reach that goal again, as well as move up in the national standings, where she is tied for 10th...