Word: fifteen
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...Fifteen Minutes: Do you ever wear shoes...
...inauguration and playing to her academic expertise, University President Drew G. Faust introduced a collection of prints exploring the ramifications of the Civil War at an exhibit in the Fogg Art Museum. The exhibit featured Kara Walker’s reinterpretations of traditional Civil War images in fifteen large-scale prints. She combines lithographic reproductions from Harper’s Pictorial History of the Civil War with haunting silhouettes of black slaves screenprinted over them. Faust’s appearance at the museum came the day after she announced the creation of a university-wide task force aimed at reinvigorating...
...increasingly deemed DRE too complex, unreliable and insecure; the only thing worse than a confusing paper trail, it turned out, was no paper trail at all. (It didn't help that the main touch-screen machine supplier, Diebold, was widely accused in 2004 of ties to the Republican Party.) Fifteen Florida counties adopted touch-screen as well, and they learned the pitfalls of it the hard way, dealing with controversies like a 2006 congressional race in the Sarasota district, where an astonishing 15% of the ballots cast registered no choice at all - in a race that was decided...
...different American or quasi-European accent in the film. “We’re too indie for cultural accuracy!” the film cries. 2. Take a hesitant sip for each of Louis XVI’s awkward attempts at deflowering or even talking to his fifteen-year-old bride. 3. Take a celebratory swig at the couple’s long awaited consummation! 4. Perform a group alcohol-waterfall for Antoinette’s intellectual renaissance: The scene in which she reads Rousseau aloud in a flowering garden of enlightenment. 5. Five shots for her foray...
...percent of the campaign stories examined “game” aspect of the campaign, such as which candidates were winning or losing in the polls and their fundraising statistics, according to the report. In contrast, 17 percent of stories focused on candidates’ personal histories, and fifteen percent on the candidates’ ideas and policy proposals...