Word: pass
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...aspirations for their children," says Guillermina Jasso, a sociology professor at New York University and a second-generation Hispanic American. The emotional complexity of that cultural changeover means that parents don't just switch from Latin names to English ones in a single go. Rather, says Jasso, they may pass through a three-stage process, "with bilingual names becoming popular for a while. Those are names like Hector and Daniel for boys and Sandra and Cecilia for girls...
...little may be accomplished by jailing Polanski—his victim has expressed no desire to see Polanski punished, the arrest comes decades after the fact, and Polanski has by all known accounts not committed any other transgressions. But the idea that this man should be given a free pass simply because he is a celebrity or because his punishment is overdue is offensive to the idea that all individuals are to be treated as equals under the law. Roman Polanski’s life has been difficult and his achievements great, but he should have no asylum from justice...
...Bears answered midway through the half with a deceptive play on a penalty corner of its own. After Brown forward Leslie Springmeyer sent a pass to teammate Michaela Seigo at the top of the circle, Seigo passed the ball to her left. Bears midfielder Katie Hyland stepped up and took a powerful swing at the ball but purposefully missed so that the pass rolled to Brown midfielder Whitney Knowlton. With the Harvard defense caught by surprise, Knowlton fired a shot into the back of the net to tie the game...
Despite these challenges, ten minutes into the second half, the Crimson extended its lead. This time, Bannon sent a through ball from the left wing into the circle for Keating. Keating gathered the pass and slipped a shot past Washburn for the first of her two scores...
...Boyer's proposal does happen to pass in Parliament, how likely is it that the warnings will gain acceptance in France? In a country where beauty is revered, it's hard to say how people will feel about defacing it with a large black-and-white warning label...