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...dedicated to Joseph's gloveless boxing matches. (Remember, this is the turn of the century.) And even Nicole Kidman's Shannon stabs her love-to-be with a pitchfork early in the movie. Poor Joe gets injured so often that it's a wonder his internal organs remain intact...
That assessment was incorrect: during the dictator's overthrow, Ramos showed himself to be a master infighter who encouraged others, including Marcos, to underestimate him. That Ramos operated with cold and effective calculation in the cutthroat Marcos administration and emerged with his "Mr. Clean" reputation largely intact is his most salient achievement...
According to the senator, the nation will "not get to world-class excellence" if the public education system remains intact. Barrett advocates longer hours in school, standardized testing, standard minimum expectations for curriculum, a school choice system based on the Cambridge public school system and a unique proposal for an "hour-glass" distribution of authority in the school system...
Some favorite conservative nostrums would actually cost plenty, such as privatizing public housing or changing current welfare rules that penalize people for taking a job, saving money or keeping their families intact. But conservatives usually pretend the cost doesn't exist. It isn't recalcitrant liberals standing in the way of such reforms. It is a national reluctance to spend the money nurtured by conservatives themselves...
...conservation process took four years. No retouching of the original paint was allowed; the purpose was to preserve rather than enhance. Areas where paint and plaster had disappeared were left bare. But many of the murals are remarkably intact, the colors as rich and vivid as if they had been applied yesterday...