Word: lande
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...Mess with the Zohan's premise is so vivid and promising - a legendary Israeli counter terrorist wants to give up violence and find his bliss as a hair stylist - that it entered funny movie legend land months in advance of its release. Ideas like that don't occur every day in Hollywood. Or every year for that matter...
...After briefly leaving politics to build a legal practice, Booker returned to Newark politics in 2006, winning the mayoral election by a landslide. His opponent from 2002, who served as mayor of Newark for two decades, was convicted of five counts of fraud in April from charges stemming from land deals he had made in office. Booker’s place in the political spotlight is nearly as closely monitored as that of other Ivy-league educated, black politicians—namely Barack Obama, n Law School graduate who the mayor has vocally supported in the 2008 presidential campaign...
...females are allowed, however, to ‘donate’ their eggs for an average compensation of about $5,000—while Harvard women may be able to land 10 times that amount. California Cryobank, a sperm repository in Cambridge, pays approximately $75 for each sperm donation by Harvard males who meet specific requirements. Governments decide which parts of our bodies are saleable, and they are in the business of drawing lines. Unfortunately, these lines are sketching quite a blurry picture of the control we possess over our own bodies. Americans can sell their eggs, sperm, blood, hair...
...Rather than banish students to this no man’s land, the Faculty should aim to develop a foundational course required of all students not exempt from their QR requirement. Such a course would be devoted to equipping students with both the statistical vocabulary and the higher math techniques needed to navigate both policy- and model-oriented courses. Taken during students’ first year, this course would prepare students for the twenty-first century...
...sustainable effort to fight for economic justice in this country. We had many successes and failures in the 1960s, but we've forgotten the most important lesson: in order to end poverty you have to make it a priority. Well, if Moses was able to find the Promised Land after 40 years in the desert, then certainly we can renew the cause after wandering...