Word: motion
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...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 thoughts and one afternoon becomes a fateful turning point when she takes care of her children along with her friend Theresa's (Julianne Moore) three daughters...
...this reason--that popularly elected officers of the council are accountable only to the students--the "impeachment" motion passed and postponed at last night's council meeting is troubling and inappropriate. (The council constitution does not specifically name an "impeachment" process...
While we can certainly understand the frustrations of Kyle D. Hawkins '02 and John P. Marshall '01, the motion's sponsors, in getting information from the Driskell and Burton, the motion is flawed in a number of ways. First, the motion itself lacks a certain degree of legitimacy. The vast majority of those who have signed onto the motion ran on or worked for rival campaigns, and it is hard to believe that political bitterness is without influence. The BGLTSA has also publicly condemned the motion, further damaging the motion's credibility...
...think a "trial" conducted within the council, itself a body lacking in legitimacy, will yield anything close to the truth is foolish. To proceed with such blatant disrespect for the will of the students is dangerous. We are dismayed that the council voted last night to proceed with the motion even after a significant minority supported killing it on these philosophical grounds...
...more money and a bigger gamble," Harper concedes. The network has, however, retained series rights. "We just hope it's a terrifically successful movie for the network, and then we can evaluate where we go from there," says Susan Lyne, ABC's executive vice president for motion pictures and mini-series...