Word: fates
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With the onset of randomization two years ago, once rooming forms are turned in to housing officials and the names and IDs are entered into the Web Site, each group's future, (or at least their residential affiliation), will be left to fate...
...even more alarming has been the fate of most recent initiatives: court date after court date. Being tied up in court makes propositions an ineffective form of government and places undue power in the state judiciary. Two recent examples--from opposite ends of the spectrum--are Props. 209 and 215, passed in November 1996, which have been tied up in court since passing. This week, the state Supreme Court issued orders to close cannibis clubs for operating in violation of Prop. 215, declaring its definition too vague on what constitutes medical use. Similarly, Prop. 209, as well as the earlier...
Most controversial and important legislation is challenged in court, but recent initiatives have increasingly been subjected to that fate. One important reason is that initiatives have become vague and have been worded more and more deceptively. Lobbyists now put their dream wording onto these bills. Though this freedom might have once supported direct democratic action, California now decides major issues based on poorly worded questions, where the answer may lay outside the boundaries of a simple...
...keep my eyes open to the reality of life around me. My last band, "Ricky and the Redstreaks," broke up when the drummer graduated last semester. Now he's sitting back home, looking for a job and the lead guitarist is gone, too--a victim of life or fate or maybe just himself. I hear Dylan echoing in my head when I think about that stuff. He's singing "You've gone to the finest schools, alright" but "how does it feel to be on your own/ a complete unknown/ like a rolling stone...
UCONN's coach, Geno Auriemma, apparently thought it too cruel a twist of fate. He spoke with the Villanova coach and the Big East commissioner before the UCONN-Villanova game on Wednesday, February, 25, and remedied the situation. After the opening tip, Villanova gave Sales an uncontested lay-up and hence the UCONN scoring record. Sales then left the game and ended her career...