Word: motioning
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Jones agrees Wilson's conduct the night of the party was far from commendable; but he thinks the punishment meted out is too harsh. McDade concedes the extremity of the sentence but says he has offered to support a motion to re-sentence Wilson. The deal would have Wilson accept a conviction to a lesser charge, be sentenced to 15 years in prison, with 10 of those years suspended. Given the two years he has already served, Wilson would already be eligible for parole. But Wilson?s attorney, B.J. Bernstein, said the offer was still unfair since, under...
...announced the city's plans to build the largest cockfighting arena in all of Central America. The sport is illegal in the United States, but there are no movements to outlaw cockfighting in Nicaragua. Considering that 22 of the 91 lawmakers in the last National Assembly were galleros, any motion to outlaw it here would probably be pecked to death on the floor of Congress...
...Motion Picture Academy will give the man an honorary Oscar "for his magnificent and multifaceted contributions to the art of film music." That sounds florid, but it's almost faint praise, since Morricone has done more than dream up some of the most ravishing melodies of the past half-century. He kicked new life into film composing, blending pop and symphonic elements into metamovie music...
...follows in a sports car that no lounge singer could ever afford. The video’s million-dollar budget seems to have been spent on Johansson’s salary and the big car crash that kills her character. As the car flips into the air in slow motion, Justin croons, “You got what you deserved.” Ouch. There’s a lesson to be learned here: cheat on JT and you’ll die a horrible, fiery death. —Christopher C. Baker
What began as a routine Cambridge School Committee meeting last night developed into a battle over whether the district should give schools more money to spend on broadly defined improvement measures. A motion put forward by rookie committee members Patricia M. Nolan ’80 and Luc Schuster recommended that Cambridge Public Schools Superintendent Thomas Fowler-Finn reallocate approximately $1.5 million of the district’s 2007-2008 budget to the school improvement funds of Cambridge’s 13 public schools. “This is crazy, it’s like ‘Groundhog...