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...course, more than likely, Ctesias had never actually seen this creature himself, but was relying on other people's accounts. As unicorn expert (yes, they do exist), Odell Shepard explained in The Lore of the Unicorn, Ctesias most likely fused details of multiple creatures, including the Indian rhinoceros, to create this fantastical being. But during that era it was common for stories to travel great distances by word of mouth, and as Artistotle argued, when the tale made its way to him, was this single-horned, silvery being any more absurd to imagine than a giraffe or an elephant...
...chance of ever getting pregnant. (You should be able to guess Act Three from here.) So she engages Angie Ostrowiski (Amy Poehler), a white-trashy girl from the nearby town of Dreery, to be the child?s surrogate mother. When she breaks up with her loutish boyfriend Carl (Dax Shepard), slobby Angie moves in with neatnik Kate. In social aptitude, one woman is the baby, the other the mama...
...Lawrence's family - and to all young lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender kids who are - right now, right this minute - being bullied and beaten in school while adults look the other way." Another group, the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN) called for passage of the Matthew Shepard Act, which would dramatically increase the power of the federal government to prosecute hate crimes...
...chief of staff, Shepard was charged with managing what he calls the “unwieldy beast”—a campaign of over 150 student volunteers...
...have to have a large bureaucracy of people in these campaigns,” Shepard said...