Word: permitting
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...foreign movies starring African-American actors. Most are accompanied by a passage explaining their significance. There are six distinct versions of Uncle Tom's Cabin, including one for cartoonist Tex Avery's "Uncle Tom's Cabana" in which, it is ironically pointed out, "liberties taken with the original story permit Uncle Tom to be run over with a steamroller and cut in half with a sawmill blade...
Comments in The Crimson of recent vintage have indicated that Central Square is a dangerous place. Permit me to definitely correct this erroneous perception...
...Paolo Borsellino, two widely admired magistrates who had made Mafia busting their life's work. Public outrage over the murders, and the seeming untouchability of those who committed them, stiffened the Italian government's resolve to confront organized crime. The national assembly swiftly passed sweeping antiracketeering laws that permit wider use of phone taps, property searches, confiscation of the property of suspected Mafiosi and guarantees of protection for state's witnesses...
...local parades. But in New York City's hopelessly fractious public discourse, a spat over including homosexuals in the annual St. Patrick's Day celebration has once again grown into a political war. After the organization that has staged the parade for more than 150 years refused to permit gay groups to march under their own banner, Mayor David Dinkins handed control of the parade to an ad hoc group that favored including the gays. John Cardinal O'Connor used his pulpit to decry Dinkins' transmogrification of "the religious to the political." A judge will rule whether the parade...
...months still to come, some reservoirs, such as Little Rock in Antelope Valley, right, that were low just months ago are now overflowing. Still, % meteorologists refuse to concede that the six-year drought is over, insisting that two more wet years are necessary to replenish underground water tables and permit an end to conservation efforts...