Word: seem
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Beginning from where all First Amendment discussion usually begins in this country, namely who owns the paper, it seems clear that the St. Louis, Missouri School Board was the owner. It created the paper with the intention that the principal of the high school would have authority of pre-publication review. In short, he was to serve as proxy for the school board, making sure that the newspaper did not become a forum for views contrary to the interests of the School Board, which provided 80 percent of the funding for the paper. The students carried editors' titles...
Imagine your surprise if you opened the newspaper at the breakfast table to read the headline: "A Solution For World Hunger". To anybody with even a little knowledge about the Middle East, the title of Jonathan M. Moses's column "A Solution for Israel" (January 20), could not but seem equally absurd. To anybody who read further, the article could not but seem misguided to boot...
...Actors seem to agree. Julius Caesar is in rehearsal with Al Pacino and Martin Sheen, each working for $400 a week. Papp is lining up Meryl Streep and Kevin Kline for Much Ado About Nothing, perhaps at the open-air Delacorte Theater in Central Park, where he regularly mounts a summer season. And A Midsummer Night's Dream, whose opening last week officially launched the series, features F. Murray Abraham (Oscar winner for Amadeus), Elizabeth McGovern (Ragtime, Ordinary People) and Carl Lumbly (TV's Cagney and Lacey...
...barn burnings on this caucus night. But the airwaves will have been heated with exorbitant claims of the leadership qualities of the candidates, and the television folk heroes will have arrived along with 2,499 other journalists. The hype will reach to the far stars. Iowa will seem far bigger than it really is. America will have to rely on the enduring sense of those quiet heartland people...
...This was a great meet for us," Scalise said. "All of our work from Christmas showed in the results, and they didn't seem as tired as I expected...