Word: localitis
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Alice is the school nurse at the local elementary school. As the mother of two daughters herself, she has always cared about the school's children, but one day a particularly difficult child, Robbie, refuses to take his medicine and throws it back at her. In a moment of anger and frustration Alice loses control of her emotions and slaps the child across the face. As one might expect, this event remains sharply fixed in Alice's mind. Elliott uses several slow-motion flashbacks to effectively show the confusing memory interfering with Alice's concentration--eventually, she cannot manage these...
Former Cincinnati mayor Roxanne Qualls will also bring her local government expertise to the IOP, focusing on the importance of city initiatives in her study group, "Shaping the City: People, Interests and Markets...
Qualls joked about her first involvement in local politics...
...Harvard women's hockey team, the host of this year's Beanpot, will take on Boston University in the first round of the local tournament tonight at 8 p.m. at Bright Hockey Center...
...often and whenever it had to be, inclement only for special occasions. For our days out on the rifle range, reliable sun. For the road march out to Victory Forge, merciless rain the whole six miles - then clear skies again just in time for our arrival. And since the local brass was on hand, of course the nights were mild and the days clear from that moment on. The coldest night of the year, down in the low teens? Our very first night in the woods, back in December. Yet now, for our last and most public act as Basic...