Word: martin
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Captain Scott Muoio and junior Dave Martin also harbor personal disappointments from last year's NCAAs. Martin missed out on qualifying by a scant few places, and Muoio was struck down with an unknown virus...
During the Civil Rights movement, Lewis served as president of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), was one of the original 13 Freedom Riders, demonstrated alongside Martin Luther King Jr. and is the only surviving speaker from the 1965 March on Washington...
...town's wells are also contaminated with potentially deadly E. coli pollutants. So a commodity most Americans take for granted simply does not exist in Evansville. "My five-year-old daughter doesn't know what it's like to get water out of a faucet," says resident Helen Martin. For the past five years, 200 families in this hamlet in the northwestern part of the state have sought $750,000 from the Arkansas Economic Development Commission for a new water system. Sorry, comes the reply, there is no money in the budget...
...once overheard boasting to a friend, "I've read War and Peace." So we know Steve Martin is intelligent. Now we know he is intelligent in print. In these comic essays (most from the New Yorker), the voice is often that of the old stand-up Steve: a fellow less cool, less together--and thus funnier--than he thinks he is. Martin takes inspiration from prescription bottles, the Schrodinger's cat paradox and Marlon Brando on Larry King Live. The little gems come at a hefty price--87[cents] each ($1.17 in Canada!)--but are worth it for their expectation...
...glory and passion that defined U2 in the 1980s is here in full force. Starting with the anthemic "Pride (In The Name Of Love)," their memorial to Martin Luther King, Jr., the album is an emotional ride wrought with equal amounts of politicized calls for action and elegant longings for love. For those people less than enamored with U2's dabbling into electronica, this collection is like coming home to a time when Bono's long hair and earnestness were a comforting alternative to the cold, mechanical music of the 1980s...