Word: lande
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...they have decided to take matters, from education to sanitation, into their own hands. Self-reliance is a good concept; however, it does little to build a nation. Is there an America, a nation, a community with shared visions and aspirations? Or is America simply a parcel of land holding some 260 million voices singing 260 million different tunes...
...lads do escape-to a sympathetic detective and (in the second half, set 15 years later) an outraged public. That a kind of justice awaits the boys of St. Vincent does not make this a simple tragedy-and-triumph movie. It means there are still heroes in the land. They may be frightened boys-or grown men who see righteous revenge achieved for the boys they once were. A&E might have shown a little of that courage to honor them and this splendid film...
...order to pull off the upset, Harvard will have to throw a wrench at the Allen-Matt Maloney Quaker backcourt. Maloney lit up Brown for 36 on February 4, and he and Allen form what some pundits have called the best two guard combination in the land...
Breyer, who still owns a home in Cambridge, discussed the transition from from heading the First Circuit Court of Appeals to sitting on the highest court of the land...
...habitats serving most American plant and animal life have declined to the point of endangerment, according to a new federal study cited this morning in The New York Times. Forests, wetlands and prairies are among the areas that formerly made up half the U.S. landscape, but much of that land has been converted for other uses or damaged in recent years. The survey points to 30 ecosystems which are "critically endangered," while the ability of the rest to carry out their ecological functions has severely degraded, jeopardizing all of the species which rely on those surroundings...