Word: donee
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Candidate statement: "I signed the Rent Stabilization Ballot Initiative question when not a single City Councillor would. I oppose gargantuan construction proposals and I would replace the current city manager. I have a willingness to get things done instead of being a 'showboat' all the time...
While Helms ran an impressive race, Harvard's next runners placed 21st and 27th, and the team members think they should have done better than they...
...summer academy in East Palo Alto, a disadvantaged neighborhood. The company also has counseling contracts with seven high schools in low-income San Jose, where Achieva works with hundreds of kids who can't afford Watson's services. "We're doing well and doing good," Watson says. The counseling done free or under contract with the San Jose schools, which is usually done less frequently and in groups, is no match for the intensive weekly help given to those paying top dollar. Still, "some counseling is better than no counseling," says Terry Hartle, vice president of the American Council...
...many believe raping a virgin will cure HIV. Earlier this month a prominent judge sentenced a 54-year-old man who had raped his 14-year-old daughter to just seven years in prison. Because the crime took place within the family, Judge John Foxcroft explained, little harm was done to the wider community. Furthermore, he said, by the time her father is released in seven years, the girl will have moved...
...weekend grosses. The No. 1 and No. 2 movies in the U.S. were, unsurprisingly, Fight Club and Double Jeopardy. But No. 10 was very unusual indeed. Not only had The Omega Code, by an unknown independent called Gener8Xion Entertainment, grossed $2.4 million in three days, but it had done so in a mere 304 theaters, yielding by far the highest dollars-per-screen figure in the Top 10. And the suits didn't know the half of it. The movie, it turns out, was funded by what the Hollywood Reporter's David Finnigan describes (fondly--he moonlights as a religion...