Word: forme
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...been eaten for millennia, but it fell deeply out of fashion shortly after Captain Arthur Phillip sailed ashore in 1788 with six cows, 29 sheep and 717 English convicts to form the first British colony in New South Wales. Non-native herd animals replaced the nomadic Skippy as the continent's meat source of choice. Australia began exporting kangaroo in 1959, and many an Aussie dog has feasted on it for decades. But it wasn't until the 1990s that most Australian states legalized the domestic sale of kangaroo as people food. John Kelly, executive director of the Kangaroo Industry...
...have been pushed around enough.' RAILA ODINGA, Kenyan Prime Minister, calling for elections to form a new power-sharing government, after President Mwai Kibaki accused Odinga's party of "fomenting a coup...
...stripped of any associations with fashion or taste--into the stark spaces and barred enclosures of his pictures. You detect them for the first time in his series of paintings from the 1950s that were drawn from the great Velázquez portrait of Pope Innocent X. Flickering white perimeters form a cage for the Pontiff's impotent fury. Why a Pope? With Bacon there's never one answer. His great gift was for visual and psychological conflation, for compressing multiple possibilities into a single sliding form. Trapped in a kind of isolation booth, where a thunderstorm of granular black strokes...
...person one vote†process, the decisions are made, and the applications return to Anderson in the file room. THE FATE OF THE PAPER Students who are accepted and decide to matriculate have their applications held at the Freshman Dean’s Office where they later form the “nucleus†of what eventually becomes the student’s college record, McGrath says. Once students graduate, the folders go to the University’s archives. Applications from rejected students are kept for three years before they are shredded. Anderson has a sheet...
...judicial nominees. And Specter might be willing to reconsider his opposition to the controversial Employee Free Choice Act; his resistance to the measure, which would make it easier for unions to organize workers, all but killed it. While Specter said he would not support the bill in its current form, union officials are now far more hopeful that they can find a compromise that will bring him around...