Word: upon
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Today is a day for planning your life. The stars are randomized into your house and are hanging out with their blockmates who look favorably upon you. You are freed from a great labor today. You have finally passed the QRR as a sophomore. You will rejoice. Your roommates will stop being condescending. You can multiply fractions. Calculators are no longer enigmatic devices used to write "Boob" (8008). The lies about your "stats" exam can stop...
Planned Parenthood has filed a civil suit against those involved with "The Nuremberg Files" in Portland, Ore., alleging that the site encourages violence against abortion providers and thereby infringes upon the 1994 Federal Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act. The case is the first of its kind both because it tests the boundaries of the 1994 Act with the question of whether words on a Web site can have the same deterring factor as physically blocking clinic entrances and because it questions the First Amendment rights of the Internet, asking whether the site is a purely political vehicle...
...Wheeler points out--the off-court personnel whose livelihoods depend upon basketball lost...
What I mean is that a professional football game is the mutation of inert muscle (noun) into pure historicized act (verb), framed in a matrix ("gridiron") of time and space. At the precise pencil-point of time, the quarterback's cogito presses urgently upon the possibilities of the unthought...
...improve upon the hermeneutics of chalktalk pundits and initiate pro football in a richer obscurantism. The thoughtful spectator will see the players as nodes through which institutionalized power relations are transmitted. From the flip of the coin, the stark binary "Either/Or" ("heads" or "tails") introduces us to a divided universe (kick off or receive? offense or defense?), a jockstrap yin-yang played out in a temporal dynamic of four quarters in a cycle of Sundays that recapitulates Vico...or is it Ibn Khaldun? I forget...