Word: instead
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...state constitutional amendments also appear today for final voter approval. One would disenfranchise those incarcerated for felony convictions. Another would require the state to redraw election boundaries based on 2000 U.S. Census data for elections held in 2002, instead of waiting until 2004, which the constitution currently requires...
...such an important time in this nation's history, we urge the American people to abandon the apathy that has been increasing for years. Instead of leaving the destiny of the country in the hands of others, take an active role in the process yourselves. Voting is your civic obligation, but it goes far beyond that. There is a great deal at stake in this election...
...week before last. Having completed a day of Regis, Oprah, Saturday Night Live and the Al Smith dinner, and set to wake up at 5 a.m. to do the Today show, he stretched out and had a beer. It was close to midnight. He should have been exhausted. Instead, in answer to my questions, he sailed into exquisitely detailed, many-referenced and well-over-my-head explanations of the economy, the arms race and anything else his mind embraced...
...figure. The transition from screen to stage has buried most of the movie's charms. The setting has been switched from Sheffield, England, to Buffalo, N.Y., and the steel-girder sets are drably unmemorable. Instead of the film's catchy '70s hits (Hot Chocolate's You Sexy Thing), we have a new score by David Yazbek, whose lyrics ("cojones" rhymed with "what testosterone is") are marginally better than his generic, '70s-pop-with-a-hint-of-Sondheim music. Even the supposed showstoppers--a black man (Andre DeShields) sings of his endowments; a crusty pianist (Kathleen Freeman) celebrates her show...
...guardian, Hattie Carmichael, leave hardscrabble lives in Paris to attend a posthumous tribute in Brooklyn to his grandfather (and her former intime). In the 1950s, Sonny's grandfather found fame and temporary refuge from racism playing jazz in France; finally his hometown is giving him his due. But instead of a joyous reunion, Sonny encounters a multigenerational feud, which Marshall unfolds by moving deftly between present and past. If her narrative occasionally swerves into Young Adult territory, it's not at the sacrifice of complex characters or of her longstanding themes: the fundamental human desire to belong--to a place...