Word: lande
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There are some logistical barriers to nationwide application of this plan. First, Michigan had one of the lowest sales taxes in the land, at just 4 percent. The 50 percent increase to 6 percent brings Michigan in line with the national average. Second, the discrepancies in per-student spending between rich and poor communities are not as pronounced in Michigan as they are elsewhere...
...land to which Lydia Oluloro has been ordered to return, little girls are mutilated. It doesn't matter whether they are rich or poor, educated or illiterate. It can happen in their infancy or in their teens. The age varies among ethnic groups, as does the degree of pain. In some African countries, it is only a piece of the clitoris that is cut off. In others, the labia minora are sliced away. Natural protuberances are viewed as ugly, the unchaste accoutrements of prostitutes. Elsewhere, the entire outer genitalia are removed and the two sides of the vulva sutured together...
...that it deterred viewers. The Manson show drew a smashing 18.1 rating (meaning 18.1% of all U.S. TV homes were tuned in), which will probably land it in the weekly Top 10. The Dahmer episode of Dateline (which also included a teary Nancy Kerrigan interview) got a 15.3 rating, the show's highest ever. Undoubtedly, the crime wave will continue -- and network news producers will continue to grit their teeth and hope their old journalism- . school teachers aren't watching...
...softest questions she had a hard-boiled answer. "We made lots of mistakes; I'd be the first to admit that," she said, though just about everyone else in the White House already has. If it turns out that she and her husband underpaid their taxes on Whitewater land deals, she said, they will make up the difference. "We never should have made the investment. But, you know, those are things you look at in retrospect. We didn't do anything wrong. We never intended to do anything wrong...
Semitic Museum. "Capturing the Holy Land: M.J. Diness and the Beginnings of Photography in Jerusalem." A selection of rare prints of Jerusalem and other sites in the Holy Land, made from the original glass plate negatives...