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...belabored liner notes explain), dealing with the personal struggles of a young man and concluding with a nuclear holocaust. Yet Lif doesn’t let the overweening scope of the concept get in the way of his rhymes though, instead using it to rap about themes seldom seen...
...years, they have raised concerns about length and composition, and those changes have been swiftly implemented. They have also had (and used) the ability to bar a tour guide for poor performance. And we have encouraged admissions officers to attend our tours and evaluate us directly, although this has seldom occurred due to their time constraints. What confuses us is how these same officers, who now control not only performance management but also hiring and training of guides, can effectively evaluate new guides and improve accountability...
...Surrealism 1919-1944," however, lets Dali more than redeem himself by spot-lighting his seldom exhibited knockout of a picture from 1944, Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee around a Pomegranate One Second Before Waking Up. It depicts a Venus-like Gala reclining nude above some rocks. Above her, two cinematic tigers leap out of a goldfish's mouth - and seemingly out of the canvas. It is so strikingly circus-like it seems almost to make sense...
ETFs have distinct advantages over open-end stock funds. They tend to be widely diversified, and investors can get a daily view of what's in the fund. The annual management fee is low, and ETFs are tax efficient because the stocks within them seldom change and their unusual structure ensures that holders rarely if ever get socked with a capital-gains distribution. You can even sell an etf short (bet on the price to fall). There are disadvantages, like trading commissions that can quickly erode the benefits of ETFs, which for that reason make no sense for investors...
Raising children of a race or culture different from their own means parents must make deliberate choices of the sort birth families seldom have to think about. A veteran adoptive father of several children of different races describes the experience as a "roller coaster of exaggerated parenting." Experts have several recommendations for parents who willingly climb aboard that roller coaster to smooth out the ride for the family...