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...liberates the vandal to travel--you never saw a bigoted, opinionated, stubborn, narrow-minded, self-conceited, almighty mean man in your life but he had stuck in one place since he was born." --MARK TWAIN...
...Grand Tower residents are anxiously watching the surrounding rivers. Stubborn bands of storms have saturated the region's corn and soybean fields, swelling the Mississippi River and its tributaries above St. Louis, Mo. Today the rising waters were only about two hours' drive to the north. Some 21 Illinois counties and all of Missouri have been declared disaster zones, and dozens of points along the Mississippi River's levees in both states have ruptured. "We're just standing by, hoping for the best but expecting the worst," says Burke "Bear" Ellett, 49, Grand Tower's mayor for the past dozen...
...certainly possible - and then play an out-of-form France for the second spot in Group C. Switzerland needs to beat Turkey to stay alive in Group A and possibly overtake the Czechs, who face Portugal. The Russians, who threatened the Spanish on a number of occasions, face a stubborn Greece and a rejuvenated Sweden in Group D. Austria? You've been a wonderful host so far. Keep up the good work...
...stubborn refusal to be empathetic not only represents a collusion with evil, but can have negative personal effects as well, Rowling said...
...Harvard community, the fasters not only reinforce the pressure for divestment on the Corporation but emphasize the seriousness of their moral commitment and invite the Corporation (and the rest of us) to do the same. Hopefully, President Bok and the Fellows of the University will not sit in stubborn silence and watch the opportunity pass by. To quote one group of tenured professors who have thrown their support behind the fasters. “We will forever be ashamed of a Harvard that defines its self-interest so callously that it is incapable of matching the moral thrust of divestiture...