Word: skips
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...immigration leaders support the boycotts and store closures. "No Falte a su Trabajo! No Falte a la Escuela!" ("Don?t Skip Work! Don?t Skip School!") read flyers plastered up and down Cicero's Cermak Road. Rather than advocating work and spending stoppages or classroom boycotts, as is the case in other cities. Chicago protest leaders are taking a more moderate approach. Sending a united message calling for "fair and reasonable" reform, Chicago area leaders are mobilizing voter registration tables, legalization petitions directed at members of Congress and public demonstrations. Two large marches, one from the north, the other from...
...Similarly, Mario Perez, a Mexican with his green card who is trying to become a citizen, couldn?t skip class at Malcolm X College, a community college a few blocks from Union Park. ?I have an English test. Maybe I?ll go over there later, but this I have to do,? said Perez, 62, who has been in the country for about 40 years. ?That?s what I?m doing. I?m bettering myself. I want...
...comment, Apr. 26). If a few plot points and a borrowed phrase every 10 pages constitute “literary identity theft”, as Tuesday’s statement from Random House alleges, few authors will escape whipping. With Chaucer and Boccaccio, Shakespeare and Holinshead, Robert Johnson and Skip James, why not Viswanathan and McCafferty? Any literary omelet worth its salt is likely to contain a few borrowed eggs...
...from a public-policy standpoint are enormous," says Dennis Wharton, senior vice president of communications for the Washington-based National Association of Broadcasters. In the U.S. in late March, the House Commerce Committee held inconclusive hearings on the copyright implications of devices like Slingbox and pvrs, which let people skip commercials and store shows on hard drives for future use. Krikorian insists that Slingbox does not undermine rights because it simply extends the range within which an individual can watch programs sent to his home, in the same way that making a video recording for personal use does. Slingbox specifically...
...returned with violin phenomenon Jackiw. Standing hesitantly next to the ebullient Yannatos, Jackiw appeared almost out of place as the orchestra began to set up the musical canvas, but upon diving into the piece with a dramatic downbow, Jackiw seized the stage for himself.Jackiw has the tremendous ability to skip about the violin and draw every note out of it without compromising its tone, and his performance of Brahms’s iconic violin piece was no exception. With a fine ability to draw out tense, almost frantic chords and runs from his violin, Jackiw’s body became...