Word: grown
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...this pollution is simple. Diners can prevent unnecessary fossil fuel consumption by purchasing fruits and veggies that grow nearby at the appropriate time of year. When faced with exotic cravings for mangoes and plums in autumn, Harvard students could “go green” by eating Massachusetts-grown strawberries or pears...
...News broke on Saturday that the Directorate of Special Operations filed papers Friday in the Constitutional Court opposing Jacob Zuma's attempts to set aside an earlier judgment disallowing its evidence against him. Those papers included an affidavit which read: "The extent and gravity of the charges has grown... The payments based on the old and the new evidence are therefore more than three times greater than those based on the old evidence alone." The charges concern allegations that Zuma was involved in the payments of bribes by French arms company Thint during a 2000 deal...
...streets to retrieve the beautiful object they had downed. The servant boy, Hassan (Ahmed Khan Mahmidzada), had no superior in this activity, and it is while pursuing a downed kite that he is raped by bullies, a crime Amir (played as a child by Zalenia Ebrahimi, as a grown-up by Khaled Abdalla) secretly witnesses without attempting to intervene. A terrible shame quickly follows for both boys and their relationship sunders. Amir and his father (stern yet yielding and well played by Homayoun Ershadi) escape to America, to avoid the Soviets, but never again see Hassan, who is lost...
...against Harvard. Why the change in schools? “Harvard just sounded better, to be quite honest,” says Washington.In addition to its message concerning the power of the spoken word, the film’s casting of young actors also appealed to Washington. Having grown up in and worked for the Boys and Girls Club and the YMCA, Washington insists that, if he were not an actor, he would work in a field related to the education and support of young people. Washington emphasizes that he chose who would play the film’s college...
...play the eponymous role. Apatow and director Jake Kasdan (“Orange County”) seem to anticipate this absence, slathering “Walk Hard” with cameos big and small—from “Superbad” star Jonah Hill, who plays the grown-up ghost of Cox’s dead brother, to Jack Black, Paul Rudd, Jason Schwartzman, and Justin Long, who literally play The Beatles. Instead of the giddy surprise viewers experience during well-placed cameos, such as Ferrell’s uncredited appearance...