Word: objections
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...planet Venus and visible during the daytime; its appearance was noted not only by the Chinese and Japanese but possibly also by Indians in the American Southwest. The New World evidence comes in the form of images carved and painted on rock walls in northern Arizona showing a celestial object adjacent to a crescent moon. There is no proof that this primitive artwork represents the supernova, but archaeological dating techniques show the Indians were in the area when the star flared, and astronomers have calculated that the supernova indeed appeared in the sky very close to the crescent moon...
...explained to me the object was not necessarily to "tell my fortune" or give me a detailed picture of my past, but to help me work through things that were bothering me, and give me advice on how to "balance" myself. He mentioned that I was too much of a perfectionist and let minor setbacks upset me more than they should. He said I should not dwell on the negative, but on the positive, adding that if I started to think negative thoughts, I should just say, "Fuck that...
...tenure considerations. Now, the council should devote effort to making CUE evaluations useful to tenure reviewers, and the faculty should make clear to all teachers that they have a responsibility to submit to CUE review. Maybe students shouldn't sit in on faculty meetings, but no professor should object to them sitting in on classes...
...flowing dream-like sequences, Indra's Daughter meets three suffering males--an imprisoned Army Officer (Matthew Schuerman), a stuffed-shirt Lawyer (Seth Sanders) whom she later marries, and a flighty Poet (Mark Karnow), all of whom are knowingly trapped within their limited existence as men. She becomes a sexual object, wife and mother--all of the everyday trappings of human femininity--before she is allowed to rise up and rejoin the gods...
Unlike most mad scientists, however, Dewitt's object is not to conquer the world with zombies brought back from the grave, nor to steal the brain of a buxom virgin; no, Dewitt aims much higher than those petty goals. His intention is to fuse the breath of life into the lost casualties of Hollywood...