Word: marlies
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What happened at Laguna Beach last week happened at Loma Mar and Rio Nido a couple of weeks before, as torrents of mud filled with debris smashed into dwellings with terrifying force. No one died in the Rio Nido slide, but homeowner Gary LaCombe feels lucky to be alive. He vividly remembers watching a tree's mammoth root ball, 12 ft. in diameter, hurtle toward his kitchen window, then veer off at the last minute, narrowly missing his house. Now LaCombe, along with his wife Phyllis and a few hundred of his neighbors, has been evacuated by county officials, barred...
...Hope for a New India," (Opinion, Mar. 2) Pooja Bhatia sets up a misleading, false dichotomy between a secular, tolerant Congress party and the supposedly intolerant Hindu nationalism which would lead to "oppression of India's...minorities...
However, as Peter Schrag points out in the The New Republic (Mar. 9), the waivers will only be granted if the child's parents themselves appear at the school and if the student has already been failing in a regular class for 30 days, rendering the waiver "a prescription for academic defeat," not a feasible alternative to English-only education. Some Latino political leaders have criticized the proposal for this reason, arguing that students who don't become fluent in English after the mandatory year will be left floundering...
...actions of the independent counsel, Lewinsky and others who claim to mar the President's character have been coy and deceptive. On the contrary, the media has done its best to illuminate the facts in a fair and responsible manner...
There are two major flaws that mar James' effort. First, there is the fact that Aldridge is such an unsympathetic character. She rants and raves, lies and deludes--we feel absolutely no remorse when she is killed. The ensuing investigation is satisfying only because of its many plot twists; finding justice for Aldridge's death seems the least important priority...