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Curiously, as Ackroyd points out, Londoners today barely notice the Thames and, when they do, they instinctively experience it as more of a barrier and a frontier than a highway: "They pass over it hurriedly; they try not to walk beside it, and they rarely venture upon it." Aware or not, Londoners are heirs to a centuries-old, north-south crossflow of envy and disdain. In 1840 the journalist Charles Mackay disparaged south Londoners by writing that "the progress of civilisation does nothing for them ... a thousand years effect nothing more than to change the wigwam into a hovel...
...them. The Committee has admitted the senselessness of such administrative hurdles; the Faculty need not await the full implementation of General Education in order to make that adjustment for the existing Core. Furthermore, the committees that decide what counts meet so infrequently that even those students whose petitions would pass muster under the byzantine requirements of the current system must wait months to hear back, if they ever do. In order to fix this problem, petitions should not only be granted for more courses, but also the process by which they are granted must be streamlined. The Faculty?...
...part because they lost, and, surely, in part because of the way they lost—on a 40-yard touchdown pass to the corner of the endzone with 19 seconds to play in the game. But Murphy and his players were also upset for another reason. A reason that should never happen, not even on the road, and not against a school you’ve play almost every year for nearly three decades...
There's no way this Court is going to say that gay marriage is required by the Constitution. I think they will leave that to the political branches; if the states want to pass gay marriage, let them pass gay marriage. But they're not going to impose...
Mukasey is not guaranteed a free pass from the left: his rulings in favor of the government have upheld some of the toughest provisions of Bush's approach to fighting terrorism. However, Senate Democrats are largely positive so far on Mukasey, saying that as a judge he was very knowledgeable and an unquestioned straight-shooter. They also say he is independent, which is the highest priority of those who want to get to the bottom of any possible wrongdoing at the Justice Department under Alberto Gonzales...