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...reality, the 20s were a time of greater national prosperity and partying... before the Great Depression,” Bolman says. In addition to the common thread of festivity that unites the celebrations of the Twelfth Night holiday and those of the Jazz Age, both periods share a puritanical element. It is represented by the rigid moral code of Malvolio in “Twelfth Night” and prohibition in the 20s. Amongst the revelry and puritanical elements found in the 20s, there was also a sense of mourning as the country healed from the recent losses suffered during...
...particularly egregious element of the standard pricing scheme is the charge for receiving messages. All messages are charged twice, typically at a rate of 10 cents for the sender and five for the receiver, though receivers can pay as high as 25 cents. Worse, since the recipient has no choice to accept or reject an incoming message, cell phone users can be billed for receiving spam...
...pilots in the cockpit of every commercial aircraft. If one of them has a heart attack or makes a mistake, the other one is there to fix it. What's happened over the last few years is to save money, they've engineered out oversight of the human element. It's too expensive to have that second team sitting and watching the first team. So the bottom line is that one of the prescriptions for improving safety is hiring and retaining high-quality individuals in the places where we have the greatest amount of risk. But that's too expensive...
...really cool thing.” Shaket believes that freestyling goes beyond poetry. “In freestyle rapping the beat is a big part of the process,” he says. “It gives you a vibe and it inspires the lyrics. That is an element that poetry doesn’t have at its disposal...
...worth facing the labyrinth together, armed with the one thing that can defeat the darkness: love. An avenue called Elysian Fields leads between the Ninth Ward and the French Quarter. Maybe—just maybe—volunteers will bring from the French Quarter to the Ninth Ward an element of paradise...