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After emigrating to the U.S. with just five dollars in her pocket, Lerner struggled through the Great Depression and spent decades in grassroots organizations. She credits her fascination with women’s history and her revolutionary academic achievements in the field to the experiences of her childhood and adolescence...
...Eisenhower era, that the government is keeping pot illegal so it can maintain its giant drug-war bureaucracy. Its advocates also believe--as put forth directly in the pro--medical marijuana commercials of billionaire independent New York gubernatorial candidate Tom Golisano--that politicians are in the pocket of the pharmaceutical companies, who fear marijuana is such good medicine that their own products will suffer. The pro-legalization forces also believe, more convincingly, that the right wing of the Republican Party connects drug use with sin and radicalism and the failure of the family. "I've known John Walters for about...
...they’re not really practical and almost certainly will not factor into any future career. When I sit in section, surrounded by Divinity School students and devoutly religious undergrads who liberally sprinkle the discussion with direct quotes from Scripture and refer constantly to their well-worn pocket Bibles, I feel useless. So much of what they regard as fundamental truth appears, to me, the equivalent of a fairy tale. Approaching the material from my non-religious standpoint, I get the sense that any opinion I have is inconsequential...
...kiosk for about $60,000 to retailers, resorts and cruise ships and then supply the machine's magic film-development dust as a consumable (on the model of companies that sell razors cheap and profit on the blades). All revenue from photo development goes into the retailer's pocket. Joel Paymer, co-owner of Camera Land, where a kiosk is being tested in New York City, gushes that "it's going to change the way consumers develop film forever." He says he's averaging about one 8 by 10 enlargement per roll of film developed in the machine...
...didn’t really think about that,” Rose said after the game. “I just wanted to go out there and try to execute. I knew that we were going up against a really good defense and I found myself back in the pocket with maybe one guy open at most. I’m really just fighting to get back to where...