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...drop the ball. They hope each successive passage will make it harder for voters to break ranks and reject the text." That's a sound strategy, but it may not work. While polls indicate that the no vote forces are a minority in all countries holding plebiscites except Britain, they also show a widespread lack of understanding and interest in the constitution. According to one recent E.U.-wide study, a mere 11% of respondents said they knew what the constitution contains; 56% said they knew little; and 33% said they had never even heard of it. The sort of people...
...felt that the advisory that was out there still got the message out...on what precautions students should take to deal with these incidents,” Catalano said. “There was really no new information to present except that another incident had occurred...
...tagline) and the cause of a national moral and legal debate. The culmination of this First Amendment contest was the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1973 ruling that pornography be defined by “community standards” and kept from the public arena except in cases of “redeeming social value...
...weird choice for a single for every reason except the gorgeous chorus by Martika. The video is lackluster, like most of his other serious endeavors with the exception of “Mosh,” and the most interesting thing about it is the generic, two dimensional way he portrays the anonymous rappers going after him. In total, it’s paranoid, overly dramatic, and lyrically forceful—a song to rival “Stan,” perhaps, for most crossover potential. I don’t even know what I’m saying...
Then Freston's people paid a hefty $9 million, plus an extra $7 million for a two-picture production deal, for MTV Films to purchase the rights to Hustle & Flow, the inspiring tale of a Memphis street dude with rap-star dreams (think Rocky, except that he's a pimp). Industry savants saw that buy as a clue to the new direction. Freston was the face of triumphant youth culture--the kid whose stuffy parents have handed him not just the keys to the car but their credit cards and the deed to their home...