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...petition did present some potentially interesting and difficult federal questions involving federal statutes that most people were unfamiliar with," he said. "People might be a little surprised if the Supreme Court refused, without opinion, to do something. The court just doesn't do that," he added...
...Latin enthusiasts believe that if young students learn word roots, they will be able to decipher unfamiliar words. (By some estimates, 65% of all English words have Latin roots.) Latin is an almost purely phonetic language. There are no silent letters, and each letter represents a single sound. That makes it useful in teaching reading. And once kids master the grammatical structure of Latin - which is simple, logical and consistent - they will more easily grasp the many grammatical exceptions in English...
...work too seriously. After all, humor is the name of the game. But humor can take many forms, and Cho's brand was unique. Through the character of Puck--an insecure, self-doubting student whose big hair hid an ever-so-fragile ego--Cho painted a world not entirely unfamiliar to his readers...
...left to guess at how many other sexual assaults have taken place within the Houses and Yard dormitories that will never be named or investigated, and will forever remain an unspoken unjustified wrong. These other rapes did not have to be violent, dramatic, or to have taken place under unfamiliar, uncomfortable circumstances. They merely had to have been an involuntary penetration of any orifice, by a person the victim knew beforehand. Date rape, in fact, a phenomena only first most common type of sexual assault. A court of law, however, makes no distinction between rape and date rape...
boards," tri-captain Ali Shipley said. "I think we were really excited to go to an unfamiliar pool for an intense contest. We not only maintained composure but also excelled on all of our hard dives...