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...After many years of poverty and marginalization, these people have become very particular,” Sáenz-Badillos says. “They have problems among themselves and other people coming there. The people are nice and ready to do something, but it’s not easy finding a way to motivate them...
...interned in the video department at Gawker Media, working on the Gawker, Jezebel, Defamer, and other videos you watch to procrastinate. When we weren’t working on a particular project (like a compilation of Obama/Osama slip-ups), I literally watched TV for eight hours straight––waiting for the next wardrobe malfunction, news anchor melt-down, or embarrassing interview that would become the buzz on the blogosphere and email list fodder...
...particular, Chambers charged God with “making and continuing to make terroristic threats of grave harm to innumerable persons, including constituents of the Plaintiff who Plaintiff has the duty to represent…[and often causing] calamitous catastrophes resulting in the widespread death, destruction and terrorization of millions upon millions of the Earth’s inhabitants including innocent babes, infants, children, the aged and infirm without mercy or distinction...
It’s the fourth game in the ACS baseball series. A Tuesday night crowd watching the Red Sox get crushed by Tampa Bay (sans enthusiasm) certainly doesn’t qualify as an unusual night in the Kirkland House grille. But this particular game attracted some out-of-town spectators, turning the grille and the game into a petri dish of strange interactions. The visitors, who have come to Cambridge all the way from Japan, are not particularly interested in the ball game. Instead, they focus their attention on the student viewers. No, they are not psychologists studying...
...emphasis is not on finding ‘right answers,” but on figuring out where you stand on an issue and articulating your position for the benefit of the group.” At no point does the committee seem to attack one particular group or label one as right and another as wrong. It may be this focus toward asking questions rather than providing answers that led Waite to conclude that the reading were not coherent and “failed to proceed logically...