Word: robbed
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...ready to quit, even though his family desperately needed his $100 monthly salary. "I am so fed up," he said. "[Taliban leader] Mullah Omar says if you transport goods for the Americans, I will kill you. But the government security agencies take off their uniforms at sunset and rob me. There is no salvation...
...Given that the very purpose of the boo-boys is to get under the skin of French officialdom, a more effective response may be to feign indifference in order to rob the slight of its intended impact. In fact, a significant portion of the booing has little to do with politics at all - it's the reaction of white French soccer fans to the parlous state of the national team, and failure of an unresponsive establishment to rectify it by firing the widely loathed national coach, Raymond Domenech...
Oasis' seventh album, Dig Out Your Soul, also incorporates different traditions: John Lennon's and Paul McCartney's. There are plenty of worse musicians to rob, and on several tracks Oasis proves that it still has a gift for towering, arena-friendly tunes. "I'm Outta Time" is rock balladry at its shameless best--with an emotional guitar lead and a sweeping, sing-along chorus: "If I am to go/ In my heart you grow." Good luck resisting it, even if there is a needlessly appended sample from Lennon's final radio interview. "Ain't Got Nothin'" takes the band...
...embarrassment of riches more than anything else.”The concentrators, currently seven seniors and eight juniors, actually end up taking only a few classes together including the introductory course Culture and Belief 16, taught by Mitchell.“It’s like what Rob Lue does in Life Sci 1a—a ridiculously overheated review and romp through the major genres,” said Mitchell, who added that he had never actually attended an introductory life sciences lecture.The students must also all take a sophomore tutorial. In Arshad’s case, her main...
...creative innovation, I would argue worse—you know what you’re getting with “The Express:” an uplifting sports film through and through. “The Express” tells the true story of Ernie Davis (played by Rob Brown), the first black football player to win college football’s most prestigious award, the Heisman Trophy. Davis hailed from Elmira, a small mining town in Pennsylvania—hence his real nickname, “The Elmira Express”—and followed in the footsteps...