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Many seniors kick back after their thesis is completed and get surprised with a swift kick from oral examinations. An empathetic FM offers 15 things to say if you blank out. (FM is not responsible for the consequences) 1) I feel this oral examination is concentration-normative. 2) Karl Marx, Friedrich Hegel and Jessica Simpson walk into a bar... 3) My dog was stoned and ate all my books. He was very hungry. 4) How’s your marriage, Professor? Not having enough sex? Feel the need to take your frustrations out on undergrads? 5) I may not know...
...more powerful than the explosion that destroyed the Oklahoma City federal building in 1995. "The concern of downwind communities is ?Here we go again,?" said plaintiff Stephen Erickson of the Salt Lake City-based Citizens Education Project. Though not a nuclear test, Erickson is afraid the huge blast "could kick up radioactive dust from previous nuclear testing," and claims "the Pentagon has sprung it on everybody with no examination of its effects...
...than a trickle. Local tourist operators complain that their livelihoods have been destroyed. "Now there is nothing," says Gedefe Fetene, 40, a local farmer. "The beauty is gone." So it may be. But proponents of more development say big projects are the only way to generate enough power to kick-start the region's economy. The NBI's Kahangire, the World Bank's Grey and other backers of a grand Nile project say that desperately poor countries like Uganda and Ethiopia need the chance to build dams and develop just as the rich world did a century ago. Rapid population...
Already sullied by claims of machismo-fueled abuse and a relatively poor record of success, tough-love programs for juvenile offenders are now getting another kick in the teeth. A coalition of savvy Florida college students, civil rights activists and politicians are protesting the death earlier this year of a 14-year-old boy in a rural North Florida boot camp, alleging not just abuse but a cover-up that is proving a major embarassment for Florida Governor Jeb Bush in his last year in office. Thursday evening, Bush's Department of Law Enforcement Secretary, Guy Tunnell, who established...
Lupe Fiasco “Kick Push” Dir. Christopher Adams and Hannah McDowell Skateboarding is cool. It has always been, and will always be—at least until the “Back to the Future” hover-scooters go on sale at Target. So Lupe Fiasco’s “Kick Push,” an ode to the essential motions of the sport, already has the chips stacked in its favor. Fiasco starts the video, as all must, with a shout-out to his homies, but what follows isn?...