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Opposition on the basis of the monetary prizes offered by the organizers of the games is also ridiculous. The Freshman Dean's Office would also have to quell all the betting pools for NCAA Basketball's pool and foosball tables, in order to fight more charges of hypocrisy...
...think [Clark] is trying substantivelyto improve the situation, though he has made aconcerted effort to reshape his image," LambdaCo-Chair R. Bradley Sears says. "He is the masterof impostering to quell dissatisfaction...
With the recent passing of the Brady Bill, gun control has again, rightfully, entered the political spotlight. Now that guns have pervaded society on every level, the government must work to quell their spread once and for all; banning guns should be one of beneficent paternalism's most important goals...
Peacekeeping alone, he said, is inadequate to quell turmoil. Vassiliou said the U. N.'s efforts should be concentrated on peace-making instead...
...Ivan seems to be in a trance in the scenes in the church or when he is making grand proclamations. In Part II, his eyes are a sight to behold: they no longer dart from side to side, but stare resolutely straight on, offering us evil personified. To quell the boyar conspiracy, Ivan creates his secret police force, the "Oprichnina." The parallels between this medieval Russian epoque and the Stalinist Terror are obvious. It's not clear whether Eisenstein intended it to be this way or whether we are looking back with twentieth century hindsight at the parallels...