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Rather than sullying his new life by getting involved in such a base endeavor, Ripley gives Reeves the name of local British expat framer Jonathon Trevanny (MI:2’s Dougray Scott). Trevanny has recently committed the cardinal sin: At a cocktail party, he said that “the problem with Ripley is too much money and no taste,” within Ripley’s range of hearing. In return, Ripley decides to play a game. Can he kill two birds with one stone: take revenge against Trevanny and aid Reeves simultaneously by turning Jonathon?...
...leery of acknowledging gender differences, arguing that all but the most visibly obvious of them are the products of culture, not genes, and could be erased by the appropriate legislation and child-rearing practices. But the differences are real, various and not easy to parse in terms of the Framer's intentions, if any. Women are more likely to be righthanded and less likely to be color-blind than men. Their brains are smaller, as befits their smaller body size, but more densely packed with neurons. Women have more immunoglobulins in their blood; men have more hemoglobin. Men are more...
Green tea ice cream, Japanese dance and a speech by a framer of the Japanese constitution are just some of the things participants can enjoy at this weekend's East Coast Japan America League (ECJAL) Conference...
Among the scheduled speakers is Beate Sirota Gordon, the only female framer of the MacArthur Constitution--which was instituted in Japan after World War II--and a present-day activist. She is of Russian origin but made a mark on Japanese history when she wrote the provision that guaranteed "essential equality of the sexes" in Japan...
...Supreme Court case of Gregg v. Georgia decided that the death penalty does not violate the Eighth Amendment. From a "framer's intent" perspective, the Founders could not possibly have meant to exclude capital punishment from the Constitution since the death penalty was quite prevalent in every part of the Union in the late 18th century. If society decides that capital punishment is in fact cruel and unusual, it ought to amend the Constitution to outlaw it; the death penalty thus falls well within the category of institutions to be established by the majority on a state-by-state basis...