Word: intents
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Important government agencies-the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the Food and Drug Administration, the Environmental Protection Agency-are run by political cronies or worse, by special-interest allies of the President intent on eviscerating the regulatory power of the agencies they were sent to manage. There is an arrogant slovenliness to it all that neuters the essential tenets of the conservative vision-that efficient markets are the best way to create wealth, that Democrats are puerile dreamers and Republicans adult realists...
...Police officers. The default warrant used to arrest him in Maine was outstanding as a result of his failure to appear in court for the masturbation case. He is now being charged with much more serious crimes—two counts each of kidnapping, aggravated rape, and assault with intent to murder. According to a press release from the Middlesex District Attorney’s office, on two occasions in September, Bennett picked up women in the Faneuil Hall Marketplace in Boston and brought them to a parking area in the vicinity of One Alewife Center, where he allegedly sexually...
...aside the moral question of gayness. Conservative blacks should denounce the Massachusetts law in question not because they've suddenly decided to embrace something they find wrong but because the law is wrong. It's ostensibly a Federalist argument that is in fact homophobic-and was racist-in intent. And it offends me to the core that lawmakers would deny equal rights to one minority group using a statute created to target others, a statute that could have barred, even invalidated, my existence and might have prevented me from marrying my (white) boyfriend from Massachusetts in Massachusetts. Remember that...
...truth is that Phoenix is warm, polite and, yes, quite dull--perhaps even willfully so. Unlike other aspiring leading men, Phoenix, 31, is intent on being a nonentity off-screen. He does not talk about whom he might be dating, walk red carpets or volunteer dilettantish political opinions. His brother was River Phoenix, the icon of lost potential, but he refuses to discuss any feelings he has about River's 1993 death from a drug overdose. Joaquin is humble and self-deprecating, although not comically so, and when pressed to reveal anything about himself, he often retreats into incoherence...
...Order: Criminal Intent...