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...improved, fully renovated Harvest is advertised as a "whole new look and concept, with the same simple hearty food." The look is certainly different, yet the "harvest" theme runs rampant from the color of the walls to the painting on the cover of the menu. Walls are textured and have the color of the exterior of a butternut squash, a wicker basket at the entrance brims with crunchy New England apples, and underneath the starched napkins at each place setting are wicker plate-covers. Tables and chairs manage the homey feel of wood with the smooth veneer of an upscale...
...chairman's cousin, and members of Fatah, Arafat's faction in the Palestine Liberation Organization. Musa Arafat's men had ransacked a Fatah office, and the provocation touched off a furious response, fed by growing frustration with the Palestinian Authority, which has a record of torture, blackmail and rampant corruption...
Today, we happily live in a society where most people consider "he" and "she" to be equal--as people, at least. As a pronoun, however, "she" still hits the grammatical glass ceiling while "he" runs rampant, masquerading as a "gender-unspecific pronoun" that represents both men and women. But the supposition that "he" or "his" may refer to both sexes is ludicrous, since study after study has shown that people of both sexes take this pronoun to refer exclusively to a male. The elusive "gender unspecific pronoun" represents a gap between the rules of grammar and the rules of society...
Needless to say, problems have a tendency to run rampant in our brick Camelot. Do any of us do anything about it? Deal with our issue-filled lives? We read the brightly colored signs on the back of the doors in the bathroom stalls in Lamont. Various hotlines vie for our attention. Does anybody call and say, "Hi, life sucks and I can't handle this"? Do we make appointments at Mental Health Services? Do we drop by the Bureau of Study Counsel? Do we deal with our issues...
...previous years, low voter turnout was rampant in this year's council elections, many of which were uncontested...