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Anna Potter, who lives at 60 Francis St. said yesterday that landscaping machines such as leaf blowers, large riding mowers and weed whackers, "each one louder than the next," make loud noises early in the morning...
...make excuses," said Levy, a player who deserves to curse the gods of four-leaf clovers if every there was one. "You can't talk about the season that might have been. We had our chances, and we didn't take advantage of them. I think any player would tell you that...
...outfits, which came in all lengths, had the homely virtue of actually looking like winter clothes, garments that would keep the wearer warm in a bad winter. Beyond that, they had a timeless elegance that would make most of the competition seem dated and tacky before the first leaf falls...
...permitted to smoke in public, and teachers in the United Arab Emirates are hounded by health officials to quit the habit outright. In India, which has the world's highest incidence of oral cancer (largely due to tobacco chewing and the popularity of smoking beedis, a rolled leaf filled with tobacco), the smoking characters in Hindi films and soap operas are almost always bad guys. Cigarette ads have been banned from television in most countries and from the print media in many. Even in South America, where antismoking zeal has yet to catch fire, Colombia and Brazil restrict...
...script Shelton wrote in 1980. A college coach (Nick Nolte) fights for traditional values against venal alumni who want to buy the best players. But the film avoids the hard truth that even traditional values in big-time college sports are a shuck. Education is just the fig leaf for the only multibillion-dollar entertainment conglomerate in which the entertainers (the players) don't get paid. The Nolte character, like any college coach, is the overseer of slave labor...