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...contrast, homeschooling is legal in all 50 U.S. states, some of which don't require families to notify authorities of their intent to teach their children at home. Tennessee is among the states that require some form of notice as well as periodic assessment tests...
Vampires are like health care plans: everybody has his own idea about how they should work. Grahame-Smith's are inhumanly strong and only mildly fazed by sunlight. Like the vamps of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, they appear human until they show their true form: fangs, gross veiny blue skin and all-black eyes. Grahame-Smith describes a vampire getting his game face on: "His eyes turned black in the space of a single blink, as if the inkwells in his pupils had suddenly shattered - the spill contained behind glass." (See why zombies are the new vampires...
...particular about the other. One could imagine a richer, subtler treatment of the subject, in which the two horrors multiply each other rather than cancel each other out. The institution of slavery revealed something about the true face of young America, something unspeakable, but literalizing it in the form of a vampire turns out to not get us any closer to understanding what...
While House affiliates have resigned themselves to the current budgetary restrictions for the time being, what no one has been able to answer is when House budgets will resume the form they had before...
...More worrisome is the possibility that a postelection Iraq will take no direction at all. None of the five leading political blocs is likely to emerge from the election with enough seats in parliament to form a government on its own. That means Iraqis will most likely have to endure weeks without a government, as their politicians engage in wheeling and dealing in Iraq's equivalent of the political backroom...