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Perhaps the movie implies that we shouldn't be pouring money into programs that spawn hoop dreams, breed hopeful young basketball players, and then destroy their confidence to the point that they lose self-respect and likely become resentful of the system that encouraged them. Certainly any program that provides an alternative to the streets is better than nothing, but ideally an inner-city youth program wouldn't rely on the lore of the American basketball star for its appeal...
HOLLIS Plus also includes gateways to other institutional systems such as the Library of Congress gopher and ORBIS, the library tool used by students at a curtain college where football team we will destroy this coming weekend. (What kind of name is ORBIS, anyway...
Paul Silver, architect; Rikers Island renovator: "Grow very thick trees like on Tara or Twelve Oaks so as not to destroy the aesthetic of the environment but to provide effective barriers against the threat...
...either case, the environmental damage could be devastating. Says Warner Chabot, an official with the Washington-based Center for Marine Conservation: "If the oil enters the Pechora River and flows into the Barents Sea, it will destroy wetlands, salmon runs and breeding grounds for shorebirds." Conditions in the Arctic are so harsh that plants and animals already live on the edge of survival. It can take decades for a tree to grow just a few feet, and tire tracks in tundra vegetation may persist for up to 100 years...
...Steve Chabot wants to destroy families of the poor only because they are black and poor. Steve Chabot wants the death penalty to apply unequally to African-Americans. Chabot wants more African-Americans. But you shouldn't be surprised. Chabot's a Republican." --From a campaign advertisement run by Chabot's opponents. David Mann, as quoted yesterday by The New York Times. The advertisement was pulled after only one day on the radio. Mann's office claimed that he was unaware of the content of the ad until he heard it himself. The two are competing for an Ohio Congressional...