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...vernacular. Astaire moved the 'scene' of the singer from the center of the great hall to just across the table, in effect replacing the Minstrel Boy with Ordinary Guy, U.S. version." Whereas Louis Armstrong abstracted a song's lyrics into a plangent growl, Astaire mined their meaning with mediocre vocal equipment. It's a coin toss to determine which one was the first modernist pop singer...
...changing landscape of American opinion on the subject, citing numerous state legislatures that have outlawed the practice. Dissenting from the majority were Chief Justice William Rehnquist and Justices Clarence Thomas and Antonin Scalia, who penned a scathing rebuttal to their colleagues' opinion. The three judges have expressed frequent and vocal displeasure over what they consider the Court's softening attitude toward the death penalty. For years there has been widespread speculation that Court moderates Justices Anthony Kennedy and Sandra Day O'Connor are inching away from their steadfast support for the death penalty. Kennedy has cited his Catholic faith, which...
...citizenship can move freely across the United States, plotting terrorist acts without ever once raising a red flag, raising the possibility that that detection is about to get a lot more difficult. Second, Padilla's arrest and subsequent detention sparked considerable concern - as well as a vocal debate - over the fate of civil liberties in a time of war, raising once again one of the fundamental questions of the post 9/11 world: How do you keep the country safe and still protect the Constitution...
...wife say the arrest was beneficial to him as a husband and a player because he learned to be more vocal and emotive, which in the process turned him into a team leader. In the past, he sulked on the bench and dealt with the threat of being unliked with silence, a strategy he says he copied from his reticent father. In Dallas, he didn't speak to Mavericks teammate Jimmy Jackson for six weeks following an argument and went two months without talking to his coach after a disagreement...
...Harvard must find ways to grow in a cramped Cambridge splintered by factional leadership and vocal anti-Harvard residents...