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...says some topics, like cooking, will spawn a series of their own. Several members of the House's Senior Common Room (SCR) have already expressed an interest in teaching students about international cuisine--and Palfrey says he could even envision a spin-off seminar, just on cooking...
...America, in the last era when adults ran things, knew they knew better and wanted kids to be just like them. Social-guidance films, the postwar spawn of progressive educators and Grade-D auteurs, taught kids how to be popular and to say no, to think fast and to drive slowly. These beguiling curios have been fodder for documentaries (The Atomic Cafe, with the "duck-and-cover" Civil Defense shorts), for compilation reels (Sex Hygiene Scare Films from Something Weird Video) and for the canny gibe artists of Mystery Science Theater 3000. Now they've been rescued and re-appraised...
Boni-Saenz denounced the move as politically motivated, and said the ten representatives signing the petition were "a group of partisans using The Crimson to spawn allegations [of scandal...
...study in disintegrated empire. Rome had long since fallen. Charlemagne had briefly laid claim to its authority, but his heirs could not sustain a continent-wide order. Christendom was a Babel of weak and squabbling kings, aristocrats whose holdings sometimes exceeded those of royalty, and a church that would spawn two competing Popes...
...whoops the fortysomething office manager and designated mom-in-residence to id software's 13 staff members, as her footsteps grow louder. A burst of green plasma fire frags me, and I have to respawn. To frag is to kill, which Miss Donna does a lot of; to spawn is to be reborn, which I do a lot of. On the one occasion I manage to frag her, she taunts, "Oh, so your gun actually works, then...