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Last night’s gathering was also attended by the joint student council of Cambridge’s Amigos School and Martin Luther King, Jr. School, which coordinated efforts to collect over 700 books for the library effort...
...just picked someone who can get booked on talk shows. I just fell into this truth ... The only reason I'm getting this much attention is because I represent hundreds of thousands of mothers who have the same story." During appearances on Oprah, 20/20, Good Morning America, Larry King Live and other television shows, she decried what she claimed was a vast, profitable conspiracy to vaccinate children, which she said was responsible for the great upsurge in autism diagnoses. Often appearing with her boyfriend Carrey (who lives with Jenny and Evan), she glibly and with irate dismissal of the scientific...
...anti-five star property is the brainchild of designer Rabih Hage, who, in a heritage building in King's Cross, has created a series of interiors that look as though they were abandoned by their builders. In the tiny ground-floor lounge, a midcentury-modern cabinet holds art books while a huge portrait of artists Gilbert & George hangs above the mantelpiece. Old TV sets and worn furniture lie around. The bathrooms (some shared, others en suite) include both power showers and 1830s wallpaper, unearthed in the renovation and left in all its patchy, uneven glory...
Certain performance numbers, however, are downright spectacular, like the well-known tune “I Just Can’t Wait to be King,” which features 18-foot high tent-like giraffe neck-puppets that bow and bend to the audience, even nuzzling a few lucky theatergoers in the front...
Democracies as far back as ancient Greece and Rome have flirted with term limits; after all you don't want to hand an elected official the same lifetime power of potential tyranny you just stripped from Caesar or King Louis XVI. When American democracy was being formed, many of its founders, including Benjamin Franklin, James Madison, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, supported congressional term limits, "to prevent every danger which might arise to American freedom by continuing too long in office the members of the Continental Congress," as Jefferson wrote. (See why Washington is tied up in knots...