Word: proofing
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Crimson had to settle for a field goal on the drive, yet it was enough to offer proof that Wahlberg, making his first varsity appearance, has the tools to play at this level...
...Washington. The Senate Commerce Committee, chaired by John McCain, held a hearing to examine the FTC conclusions. Senate colleague Joe Lieberman showed up to express his and Gore's distress. Dick Cheney's wife, Lynne, former head of the National Endowment for the Humanities, arrived to cite Eminem as proof that the problem is not just how the entertainment companies sell. "There is a problem with the products," she noted...
Dressed in riot gear, with acid-proof coveralls, helmets, masks and shields, they didn't hesitate to wield their batons in forcibly removing students from the building...
...when pop culture raises the dead, it also raises a tension between faith and logic. Even for the secular, accepting death often involves a belief, absent proof, about the undiscovered country beyond life. These programs fill a hunger, sneered at by hip media insiders, for soul food, but they also risk oversimplifying an eternal conundrum. Offering easy evidence of something beyond, however heartwarming, runs counter to faith. And faith--religious or otherwise--is all most of us have to make do with...
...last rules of puritanical date restraint between boys and girls - at Gore's Harvard, they called them parietals - were abandoned under pressure of the baby boomers' importunate hormones (the hormones shrewdly mixed themselves up in anti-war politics, which made "sexual liberation" a cinch). The convention kiss is proof not only of an endearing and enduring connubial passion between the middle-aged high school sweethearts Al and Tipper, but also of the residual baby boom refusal to grow up and behave like adults. Grownups don't behave the way Al and Tipper behaved that night in Los Angeles...