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...that doesn't work, much of Lisbon could be imposed by stealth. Creative legal minds would ensure that the most pressing institutional changes - like an E.U. foreign minister and an "External Action Service" - are implemented without a daunting new treaty that would involve the assent of pesky voters...
...Dennis Hopper and head of Women for Obama in California, producer Paula Weinstein, actress Tracee Ellis Ross of the CW show Girlfriends (and daughter of Diana Ross), actress Journee Smollett of The Great Debaters and Vicki Kennedy - wife of Max Kennedy, one of Bobby Kennedy's sons - murmured their assent. All told, the women pledged to each bring 50 people to the polls with them and make a total of 2,000 calls before Super Tuesday...
...distortion to connect her anti-pornography position to the belief that “women are always coerced into sex.” The argument is not that women cannot be trusted to give consent, but rather that mere consent does not necessarily make an arrangement just, especially when assent is driven by economic desperation. I imagine that The Crimson writers would see injustice in the conditions of third world sweatshops, where laborers “voluntarily” work 16 hour days in hazardous working environments. It is curious, then, that they are so uncritical of the degrading character...
...leapt off of my bed in jeans and a sweatshirt to investigate. Seconds after we poked our heads out of our entryway into Lowell courtyard, a police officer was marching towards us. “You kids live in the dorm?” and when we nodded our assent, “You better get inside so that you don’t get mixed up in all this.” Later that night, we hesitantly tiptoed out to IHOP, walking nervously between the rows of police cars, trying not to draw attention to ourselves as young black...
Releasing an album with a major record label is similar to giving birth. It usually takes nine months, and the pain can be unbearable. Even at its most efficient, the process requires the input and assent of retail conglomerates, lawyers, marketers, radio promoters and CD manufacturers. And if the project is a runaway success, it might bring in half the revenue it would have a few years...