Word: vein
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...wants a Boston Massacre. We want to see this thing go the distance, seven games, a classic finals that lives up to the hype. In the late '80s, the Detroit Pistons devised a defensive scheme called "the Jordan rules" to slow down His Airness. So in the same vein, to give Boston coach Doc Rivers and his team a fighting chance, here is a version of what can be called "the Kobe rules," culled from some of the best minds in the game...
...maintain active communication between the Allston-Harvard Task Force and Harvard Construction Mitigation website to limit the days construction will continue past 6 p.m. Harvard has also expressed support for a measure to provide an after–school tutoring and lecture program to Allston children; in this vein, Harvard ought to entertain the possibility of opening a University affiliated high-school in Allston. We hope that in addition to these steps, Harvard will open its shuttles to residents, create plenty of green spaces, and give the Allston community access to the planned art museum...
...similar vein, education funding for illegal immigrants is being threatened in the United States. Legislation like Proposition 300, passed in Arizona in November 2006, prohibits the state from subsidizing in-state tuition to illegal immigrants. The measure, however, mainly impacts the children of illegal immigrants, many of whom have been raised in the U.S. This group deserves access to educational opportunities and should not be denied this opportunity by what is—at its core—xenophobia...
...page 28. Unless those with an interest in justice step forward soon, we will see the issue turned over to people like the pro-execution demonstrators outside the prison in Huntsville. They posed for the cameras with signs saying “Kill ‘em in vein,” while brandishing a large Confederate flag...
...board, has joined with Cure Autism Now as part of a campaign to wipe ASDs out. asds are not diseases, and I think I speak for many when I say that we are happy the way we are. Autism is a genetic difference in the same vein as skin color, gender and other such categories. Phil Gluyas, Victoria, Australia...