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...easy running as a Democrat. There are litmus-test land mines in every audience. At the Montgomery County meeting, a local surgeon named William Epstein showed me his list: drilling in the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge, abortion, gay marriage. "I'm afraid he's a mini-Republican," Epstein said at first. But later, after asking the candidate directly, he amended his judgment: "He answered me straight and passed every one of my tests." Webb is an outdoorsy hunting-and-fishing environmentalist. He is pro-choice, pro-gay rights. He has expressed nuanced reservations about affirmative action and women in combat...
...1930s. Radcliffe’s North and South dormitories, now known as Pforzheimer and Cabot, respectively, were converted to Houses in 1961. Construction on the tenth house, Mather, was scheduled to begin in 1963, but it took the University an additional four years to buy out the parcels of land required to begin construction.The College intended to use the extra space afforded by Quincy to diminish overcrowding and to devote the other two Houses to increasing the number of admitted students. The University opened the $4 million health center—snow called University Health Services?...
...HILLS MTV, WEDNESDAYS, 10 P.M. E.T. Oh, to be young, beautiful and videotaped! This sequel to rich-kids reality soap Laguna Beach follows LB's Lauren Conrad to fashion school in L.A. She moves into a fabulous West Hollywood apartment, then interviews for and just happens to land an internship at Teen Vogue--you keep waiting for the scene in which a 10-carat diamond falls from the sky into her lap. With My Super Sweet 16 and Tiara Girls, The Hills completes a kind of MTV trilogy of princesshood. Yet it's hard not to like Conrad, if only...
Unlike a lease, an easement only gives the holder a right of use to the property, not a right of possession. Oftentimes the right is described as the right to use the land of another for a certain purpose...
Five years after collapse of the Taliban, the streets of Kabul are typically clogged with land cruisers transporting foreigners or newly minted drug lords. Ordinary Afghans, however, still live much as they did before - with sewage flowing through open gutters at the side of the street, no running water and working electricity only about every two or three days...