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...aviary needs government approval and has not been without its critics, who question the initial $222,000 price tag and annual $44,000 maintenance cost. "We have to consider what is doctrinally right for the religion," says KHOJESTE MISTREE, an Oxford-educated Zoroastrian scholar and prime mover behind what could be India's first captive vulture-breeding center. "It may seem perfectly normal for some people to bury a body in the ground. To me it is repulsive that worms are eating a body for as long as 60 years...
...This was probably not an election mover, as close as the race appears to be - though both presidential candidates should be thrilled with their seconds in the morning. They should be envious too, and a little embarrassed. The sole vice-presidential debate of the 2000 presidential election was a cleanser of the political palate for any voter who watched it. And if Al Gore really has irrevocably expanded the role of the vice president in governing America, that torch will be well carried no matter who is the victor in November...
...film's prime mover is Buck, played by its writer, Mike White, who was also a producer on the flop-d'estime TV show Freaks and Geeks. Buck is in his late 20s, but his development was arrested in preadolescence. Jobless, he lives with his mother, who dies in the opening sequence. He invites his old pal Chuck (Chris Weitz) to the funeral...
Winston ("Tuffy") Foshay is a good hustler. If he were working on Wall Street, he would be called a Mover. So the fact that this 19-year-old drug dealer decides to launch a campaign to become a New York City councilman doesn't seem a stretch. Especially since his mentors are themselves unconventional--Spencer Throckmorton, a black rabbi, and Inez Nomura, a Japanese-American activist. Beatty's second novel (The White Boy Shuffle was his first) is like an extended rap song, its characters recounting struggle and survival with the bravado of hip-hoppers. But then, that's exactly...
...going to be a real festival of resistance," says Scott Nova, director of the Citizens Trade Campaign, a prime mover in Seattle. "We want to stop the current model of globalism that helps giant corporations at the expense of virtually everyone else...