Word: dickenson
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...Kadrmas v. Dickenson Public Schools, which was decided last summer, the high court ruled that primary and secondary schooling is not a right which all children can enjoy, but a consumer good available to those who can afford...
...than confirm existing doubts about his self-control, and could create a backlash of sympathy for him. That does not mean, however, that the well-documented evidence of his deceitfulness ought now to be ignored. "Lying and cheating are serious charges against anyone," says Washington Post Political Reporter James Dickenson, "and it is not sensationalist or irrelevant to examine them." Even as the public resents the intrusiveness of the press, it will continue to demand to know as much as possible about the people who seek to guide the future of the nation. Thus questions about Hart's personal morality...
...Quakers, who are in a tailspin since beating Cornell early in the season, have lost seven straight including a heart-breaking one-point loss to Fairleigh Dickenson University in which Penn shot 55 percent from the field...
Harry Marmion academic vice president of Early Dickenson College, said the meeting also showed a trend toward more academic control of the NCAA...
This isn't really funny in itself; the episode works because it's so out of whack with the dramatics of the plot, so smirkingly contemptuous of Dickenson's character, so unnecessary and marginal to the movie's main action and yet inflated to appear like a crucial scene. Most of the humor throughout the picture is similarly point-less, derisive and unaligned with the story's primary course of action. It's used as a kind of filler to bridge scenes of suspense or violence--which are all DePalma really cares about--and it is significant that...