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...Kids should experience better things than learning to kill people,” Corona said. “It’ll be interesting to see if he’s changed when he gets back from basic training...
...work thrives, arresting and revealing the gaps in communication and visualization that come with the designing and realization of a commission—architectural and artistic. These are the disparities between what is and what might have been, the result of difficulties that arose out of even the most basic translations during construction between Corbusier’s use of metric measurements and their American equivalents...
House Masters and tutors agree across the board that amorous relationships between students and tutors are strictly forbidden. Kirkland House Master Tom C. Conley notes that the policy is one of the basic premises in the contract for every tutor hired...
...This in effect placed two questions before the voter in a single question, something illegal in several of the states. Voters in some states who wished only to establish their understanding of “marriage” may have unwittingly—and unwillingly—denied the basic civil rights enjoyed by straight couples to gay couples. Furthermore, because these referenda affected state constitutions, judicial review by state courts to salvage those rights may be impossible...
...some very serious conflict between the agenda of [a potential presidential] ticket and the agenda he's got to carry as the only African American in the Senate," says Walters. Says Rush, who has not fully forgiven Obama's audacious run against him: "In my community, the basic desire is to get a black into the Senate. Once he gets in, we can nudge him along on the path that might be less comfortable...