Word: cannot
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...groups are particularly overburdened by other demands on their time, but it is a general fact that--in spite of the rewards of being at the head of a community of 450 or so undergraduates--many Faculty who would be desirable candidates as masters simply tell us that they cannot manage any more commitments on their time," Lewis writes...
...shooting, but how responsible is he for the act? The law in most states contends that under the age of seven, a child cannot understand the consequences of a criminal act, and indeed, the police said the boy--in spite of his history of violent behavior--did not seem to comprehend the gravity of what he had done. The Genesee County prosecutor said the boy could not have formed criminal intent...
...money(!). A hero in his character, if not in his cause, was Robert E. Lee, who after his considerable loss, was exhausted and without an income. An insurance company offered him $50,000 (easily a million today) to use his name. Lee said, "I cannot consent to receive pay for services I do not render," and eventually accepted the presidency of small and impoverished Washington College, which became Washington and Lee after his death. For what he told the insurance company, he could be put to death today...
This show cannot be seen as a Dali retrospective, though it represents all phases of his career. In pursuit of all aspects of his illusionism, it contains a great deal of decidedly inferior work from his later years. However ingenious his pictorial puns, tropes and double meanings may be, they do not necessarily amount to much as painting. Nevertheless the show has some amazing pictures in it, and it contains what is certainly Dali's greatest and most frightening work: the Soft Construction with Boiled Beans--Premonition of Civil...
...standard introduced in the European Union in 1991. Thanks to GSM, a subscriber in Portugal can use her phone from Ireland to Hong Kong. The U.S., in contrast, still allows various incompatible standards to compete like trains running on tracks with different gauges. As a result, a New Yorker cannot use his cell phone in London and, depending on his carrier and his instrument, sometimes not even in St. Louis...