Word: lila
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...said I was going snowboarding and I had way less wind resistance and better powder without pants,” said Lila Shreiber...
Though many of the demonstrators on Thursday said they oppose violent tactics, they continue to focus on what they call unwarranted police response to their protests. Lila, a 24-year-old speech therapist, says she would never hurl rocks at police, but says the authorities should not be occupying the streets. "Each individual is able to protect themselves," she said. She said the protests are not "just for the boy," but express the anger at the financial crisis and political corruption, and "will not end until the government falls." Lazaros Apekis, president of the Hellenic Federation of University Teachers, said...
...Institute Director Anthony Saich, who is currently in China, said in the press release. The institute is not using new funding to enact the initiative. Instead, it will alter the distribution of its endowment, which is based on grants from the Ford Foundation and Roy and Lila Ash. “It’s a strategic redirection of the resources,” Mauzy said. In addition to revising its own mission, the institute will refocus two of its other related programs—Innovations in American Government and the Global Innovators Network—to the current global...
...Power Vote is something that the EAC can have behind a lot of our events [this week] and give more people a way to be actively involved,” said Lila G. Brown, ’11 who helped organize Power Vote at Harvard. “It is also a way to engage the public on a broader level outside of Harvard when everyone is talking about sustainability already...
...well - for a time. Then, naturally, they don't do so well. There's a suspenseful and near-horrific incident with a smuggled baby. There's an increasingly nosy state patrolman who may possibly have an inarticulate romantic interest in Ray. There's trouble with the Indians over Lila and her illegitimate baby and, of course, over the fact that she is breaking the law. And Ray's sons, both nice kids, are restive and in need of closer supervision. In the end, rough, but not draconian, justice is meted out to Ray, but a thin ray of hope also...