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...very seldom adopts statements that take a position this formally," said AAU President Cornelius Pings. "We wanted to get some attention, the attention of policy makers across the country. We wanted to portray our opinion strongly...
...Esclave (slave dance), the female role was performed by Jennifer Gelfand. The highlight of her variation was, as always, her amazing pirouettes and fouettes. She amazed the audience with her ability to do four and five rotations in the midst of her fouette turns, a feat that is seldom seen onstage...
...take issue with the peculiar legal limbo in which naturalized immigrants find themselves. As a naturalized American citizen, I am bothered by clauses in our Constitution which preclude foreign-born citizens from running for president. It occurs to me that this precondition begs a seemingly self-evident, if seldom-posed question...
...link between stroke and dementia is not new, but seldom has it been called out so clearly. One reason is that Snowdon and his team had access to a sizable control group and thus were able to compare brain tissue of normal people with that of diseased individuals. In 41 nuns who did not have Alzheimer's-like brains, researchers found, strokes caused no measurable decrease in overall mental competence. But in nuns with Alzheimer's, just one or two strokes--small strokes that left swirls of dead tissue no bigger than a pencil tip--were enough to trigger...
Eliminate both Secrets & Lies, inexplicably nominated since it was shot without a script, and Shine, since biography seldom wins awards for originality. After that it's a toss-up. Fargo got more recognition for its visuals and its characters than for its script, but that's where it all started. Jerry Maguire dared not only to turn a star vehicle into an actual character piece but also to create several likable, believable men and women (and it gave America "Show me the money!") John Sayles's Lone Star was overlooked in every other category, but its dense novelistic structure makes...