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...this point the lesson breaks down, as the poor Pupil gets a toothache but is forbidden to leave the room. The Professor becomes a rampant spewer of knowledge, screeching at his Pupil with increasing ferocity. He ends up stalking her across the room with a knife in his hand, prodding her to pronouce "knife" in French, Spanish and Neo-Spanish. Her pleas of a toothache are too much for the Professor, who slashes at her and kills...
...WHAT WOULD THE FORBIDDEN SEGMENT OF 60 Minutes have contained? An interview with Jeffrey S. Wigand, a biochemist and endocrinologist who now teaches high school in Louisville, Kentucky. Between December 1988 and March 1993, Wigand worked at Brown & Williamson as a $300,000-a-year vice president whose work focused partly on attempts by B&W to develop nontoxic and fire-retardant cigarettes--a project that Wigand reportedly told CBS it never pursued in earnest...
...much I haven't done" and "cops go through girlfriends like they go through veal cutlets"? She tries, in the best modern fashion, to intellectualize her desires: "One of the things that interests me about sex is that it is a conspiracy of improvised myths. Very effective in evoking forbidden or hidden wishes." But she knowingly places herself in increasingly mortal danger...
Current Republican legislation will curtail regulatory tyranny. Not only will the EPA's plans to make water cleaner be halted, but the EPA will be forbidden from enforcing current regulations regarding storm water runoff, sewage overflow and toxic dumping. Hundreds of millions of dollars that the EPA provides to assist states in paying for water and sewage treatment plants will be eliminated. The EPA's influence in curbing radon in drinking water and cancer-causing substances in food will be eviscerated. Guidelines and programs to decrease air pollution will be scrapped or reduced in funding. Even the ban on chlorofluorocarbons...
...speech at the same square where her husband was cut down on November 4. "They left you alone in the turret," she told a crowd estimated at over 250,000, as if addressing her husband. "The writing was on the wall and they were silent. It is impossible and forbidden to remain silent anymore. Let the sane, just voice be heard. The silent majority will be silent no more." What was remarkable about the huge gathering on the square now named Kikar Yitzhak Rabin, says McGeary, was that Leah Rabin was the only person who gave a speech...