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...much vaunted 15 years ago when her novel Surfacing was hailed as one of the best books of the '70s. One of the deficiencies of The Handmaid's Tale--and maybe the Atwood genre in general--is that its prediction of a society where a woman's best function is to reproduce is quite unbelievable...
...shooters and put undue pressure on the perimeter," Delaney Smith said. To offset the loss of strong scoring performances by its guards, Delaney Smith said that Harvard needed to capitalize on its play in the lane, but that the Crimson has yet to prove that its inside game can function without last year's power players Collins and Chandler...
Garrow writes that partly as a result of the FBI's intimidation, King often suffered from morbid depression, a contention hotly contested by some of his heirs. Says the Rev. Jesse Jackson: "The thesis that his personal life was so convoluted that he couldn't function with clarity is contrary to the facts. What I saw was courage to the point of crucifixion." Some of King's associates object to Garrow's revelations. Even if true, says Wyatt Walker, former staff chief to King, "how does that change the value of his contribution toward sensitizing the nation on the moral...
...commander reads the directory and displays all of the files in the right hand corner of the screen. The user can use the arrow keys to move the cursor from one file to another. Upon selecting a file, the user then hits one of several function keys to perform a given function such as listing, running program, or printing out the file...
Kaku, who has outspokenly maintained that StarWars cannot function as a defensive system butonly as a first-strike weapon, joined Kogut andformer Attorney-General Ramsey Clark late lastyear when the trio presented the petition to theUnited Nations...