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...devastating when children are forced to be the family's interpreters. Try having to miss class because you have to interpret for your mother at her gynecologist's. Let's be practical and make it really hard to function in our society without knowing the language. Marcia Del Mar Calabasas, California...
MARCIA DEL MAR...
...puzzle to which Okrent refers is one Reagle constructed for the film. The theme is Word Play, and it uses the key words hidden in new configurations: word in "neW ORDers" and "cross sWORDs," play in "PLAYa Del Mar" and "toP LAYers." We see Reagle creating the puzzle, then Shortz accepting it and finally Clinton, Stewart, Burns, Okrent and Indigo Girls solving it. The first clue is "Warhead weapon," four letters. Stewart and Burns jump on ICBM, while Clinton, who's been in charge of these things, says, "it's gotta be an ICBM or a MIRV." As the theme...
...tempered optimism," according to an aide who worked on the speech. When Bush appeared before the cameras, he sounded muted, speaking of his hope that the death of Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi would allow Iraq's infant government to "turn the tide" of a war that could still mar Bush's presidency. "Zarqawi is dead," Bush said, "but the difficult and necessary mission in Iraq continues...
...without their knowledge fared no better than patients who were not prayed for, and patients who were aware of being prayed for actually experienced more complications.While on the surface the study may seem to deal a blow to religions that believe in the power of prayer, in a Mar. 30 teleconference, the researchers stressed that they were not reading too much into the conclusions of the study.“It’s not unusual to have unanticipated results in such studies,” said Charles F. Bethea, chief medical officer at the INTEGRIS Baptist Medical Center...