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Publications

I may struggle with geography, but I'm sure I'm somewhere around here.
We must become the change we want to see.
Everyone was busy, so I went to the movie alone.
**As the first and second seasons played out, we got inklings of why Laurie had been so discombobulated by the Departure.**
We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.
**As they note, Sarah Palin brought the McCain campaign $ 7 million in the first 24 hours after being announced.**
**Candidates on both sides of the aisle have a history of getting into trouble with voters when they unveil too much too soon.**
**That didn't stop him from founding a chapter of the Gay Liberation Front and marching in a dress down the streets of Atlanta, Georgia, hardly a "sissy" act in 1970.**
Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.
They wandered into a strange Tiki bar on the edge of the small beach town.
**The Muslim Brotherhood had a long history of vehemently anti-Western and anti-Israel positions, including refusing to accept the Jewish state’s right to exist.**
**Some less talented author (me, for instance) would have written “while her eyes adjusted to the darkness,” but then I wouldn’t have spent the last thirty years appreciating the darker dark of an open door every time I got up in the middle of the night.**
Just over a day since going permissionless, Lens has already set new records.
**some elites are protected, others are not;**
**I’m groggy almost every morning.**
**It appears Obama didn't want to resort to a no-fly zone because of the lessons he learned in Libya, as The New Yorker's Dexter Filkins explained in a length report earlier this month: With Qaddafi’s forces closing in on Benghazi, Obama asked his military advisers whether a no-fly zone would protect the Libyan people.**
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**Geng also noted that China “fully, accurately, earnestly and faithfully implements” UN resolutions against North Korea, and did not explicitly rule out participating in more sanctions.**
**Yes, you read that headline right.**
**The lobbying to get an African-American reporter into press conferences had intensified in 1940, but it wasn't until late 1943 that the editors rallied behind McAlpin.**
**Zelenoff gained notoriety through his YouTube videos and presence on boxing blogs and forums, but for all the wrong reasons.**
**“I was trying to forward the message to my mom, to get her input on the paperless tax forms,” he later explained.**
To choose what is difficult all ones days, as if it were easy, that is faith.
**Senate for two decades, sponsored the National Labor Relations Act, known also as the Wagner Act.**
**"In place of candid shots of Harry Styles and Zayn Malik, there are now photos of accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev," Gawker's Max Read wrote about an eighth grader's Tumblr page in one of the first big profiles of the movement on that day.**
**But I wouldn't change anything about that balance.**
**But is it Andrew’s worldview that keeps shifting, or is it the world itself?**
The tortoise jumped into the lake with dreams of becoming a sea turtle.
**In the United States, where crime rates are at unprecedented lows in many cities, and a higher percentage of people are incarcerated than in any other free society on earth, I see no evidence that we're suffering from a refusal to treat people who commit street violence as criminals.**
**still needs to know what Kim offered.**
**Conant thinks if “Trump is elected president of the United States, he’s gonna have a lot more challenges to worry about than what to do with” people who stood in his way in 2016.**
**Soccer sued the union that represents the women’s team in federal court, arguing the terms it agreed upon for its players, and that expired in 2012, should still be valid.**
**Though the scientist has a different goal than the perpetrator—to understand, rather than to exculpate—their analytic stances overlap.**
**Blame the recession.**
**Arctic, Clinton's stance will likely have broader effects on the industry if elected.**
**Once more, state officials have embraced a culture that dehumanizes inmates by diminishing their mental illnesses.**
Twenty-five hours had passed since the incident. It seemed to be a lot longer than that. That twenty-five hours seemed more like a week in her mind. The fact that she still was having trouble comprehending exactly what took place wasn't helping the matter. She thought if she could just get a little rest the entire incident might make a little more sense.
**The former Mandel aide declined to say whether he is involved with the group that is chaired by his current boss and running ads in support of his former boss.**
**Over the past few weeks, many have praised Tom Brady for agreeing to an extension and restructuring of his contract, thus freeing up $ 15 million of salary-cap space for the team to acquire new players.**
**As I sat in my parents’ kitchen last fall, thumbing through my dad’s back issues of Scientific American, my mother warned me again about my hurtling headlong into a lonely void.**
**Imagination is a very potent tool.**
**Yet to sustain the illusion he was fully in command, Ike remained publicly silent about what went on behind the scenes.**
**With no one else in the house to take Kyle off his hands, Stefan called a friend, crying: “I had no idea what was going on.” When I asked Stefan how he decided to take on the responsibilities of a single dad, he said, “This is my child.**
**President Obama is in danger, but the momentum isn't overwhelming.**
**Yet for all its futility, the Wilderness decided something.**
**He will continue to promote equality for LGBT Americans.**
**It’s unclear how many men were actually arrested in total on Thursday—figures from Italian and Eurojust officials differ slightly.**
**Different people have different ideas.**
**And Sheboygan County, Wis., also voted last year to stop allowing county retirees to use the county's health insurance plan, instead shifting them onto the health care exchanges.**
**A threat must be “true” only in a linguistic sense—that is, it must communicate—and the speaker must at some level understand it to communicate—an actual intention to commit harm to the person threatened.**