Word: merricks
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Kennedy and Motz were joined by Merrick B. Garland ’74, who sits on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia...
...College, but he may not serve as a role model for aspiring politicos. According to the voting record on the House of Representative’s Web site, Kelly only participated in 36 out of 130 possible votes.A young representative with a much cleaner voting record, Democrat Scott A. Merrick, 21, is a senior at Tufts University majoring in political science. He was first elected to the New Hampshire House at the age of 19, has served one term as a representative for Coos County District 2, and is running for reelection next Tuesday. Merrick says he sees Gallichon?...
...sweet, even vaguely plausible, scheme. The clones are kept in a nice white bunker, their health is closely monitored, all their needs--up to the mental age of 15--are provided for, and sex is not an issue since the system's mastermind, Merrick (Sean Bean), has simply eliminated that messy urge. He feeds them on two myths. One is that they are the only survivors of a vast "contamination" that has wiped out the rest of human life. The other is that there's a paradisical, uncontaminated island on which you can win residence by giving birth or through...
...What Merrick doesn't count on is the clones developing minds of their own. Well, not exactly minds--more like trace memories borrowed from the people they are doubling for. But you know how it is: you get to remembering, and then you get to thinking. It's sort of the same way with romance. Cute guy (Ewan McGregor) and pretty girl (Scarlett Johansson) start making eyes at each other, escape to the fully populated, slightly dystopian real world and, sure enough, find time amid the car chases and explosions to start fooling around. There are other trace elements...
...create an image of simple, down-home wholesomeness. Instead of being decorated with a map of Scandinavia, Ben & Jerry's cartons show a picture of the two be spectacled, bushy-haired owners, who look like refugees from a '60s commune. Pals since they were in high school in Merrick, N.Y., Cohen and Greenfield decided in 1977 that making ice cream would be more fun than what they were doing. Having failed to get into medical school, Greenfield was then a lab technician in North Carolina, and Cohen was a pottery teacher at a school in New York. After taking...