I get into the car, say hi to my mum buckle up and start telling her about my day, basically highlighting all the events that happen at school, such as the Jimmy Jones getting hit by water bombs since yr 12's were nearly finishing, also how a pigeon got into the classroom and created havoc. ... I walk up to the starting line and look around, it was time to focus straight down the 100 metres, I have Steve on the left (he isn't much competition) and James on the right (now that is competition, I don't think I can beat him I say). ... I run full pelt down the track, I hear some che...

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This is an excerpt from the website of a renowned comic book author Gerard Jones. ... These guys -- "a bunch of kids who like to play games," says Steve Gibson, a skinny 23-year-old with long sideburns, in his soft, slightly embarrassed voice -- are living out the fantasy of every hardcore gamer: earning a living making and playing 3-D action games. Steve runs a gaming website called shugashack.com; the rest work at companies that have sprouted up here after the runaway success of id Software's Doom and Quake in the mid-'90s. ... Dan, Jack, Steve, Patrick, and Scott are nice guys -- ...

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Punks have always been known for pushing the envelope, but the Sex Pistols pushed it farther than anyone to date in the genre of punk music. The Sex Pistols boisterous lyrics and edgy appearance led for them to be heavily censored by the radio and print media and even banned in many places, Britain ...

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Leading the nominations is "Chicago", the successful hit version of the Tony-award winning Broadway musical, with 13 "jazzy" nominations including Best Actress (Renee Zelwegger), Best Supporting Actress (Catherine Zeta Jones), Best Director (Rob Marshall), and Best Picture. Queen Latifah also managed to snag a Best Supporting Actress nom along with her costar Zeta Jones. ... And the nominees are: Catherine Zeta Jones ("Chicago"), Queen Latifah ("Chicago"), Julianne Moore ("The Hours"), Kathy Bates ("About Schmidt"), and Meryl Streep, who received her 13th nom for her role in "Adaptation". ....

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Sociology 11/09/01 When the tragedy happened at Waco with David Koresh, to many it resembled the tragedy with Jim Jones in Guyana. Jim Jones and David were alike in many ways as leaders of their occults. ... Jeanine and Al Mills were former Peoples temple members under Jim Jones. ... Jones was not going to let any outsider get that close to his compound. Jim Jones was very abusing to all of his members. ...

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Men like Walt Disney, Steve Jobs, and Thomas Edison were once told they were stupid, unoriginal, and would never make it. ... Seuss' first book, "And to Think That I Saw it on Mulberry Street," was rejected 38 times, before the author was published (Jones). ...

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• Saturday 27 June 1880, Joe Byrne and Dan Kelly joined Ned Kelly and Steve Hart at Glenrowan and took possession of the hotel and 60 people. ... While much of the provenance of the letter remains unclear, Ian Jones has been in contact with the owners of the letter since 1969....

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(Jones 10) To get a full understanding of Morrison's potential fall from greatness, which was averted by his unfortunate demise, one must first look at his rise to it. ... (Jones 9)... (Jones 9) The award winning author Joan Didion called the Doors "the Norman Mailers of the Top 40, missionaries of apocalyptic sex," (9). ... (Jones 137) As a result, many stops on the Doors concert tour were canceled, and they were banned from numerous venues. ... (Jones 9-10) Jim hated his pop start image, and was tortured by it. ...

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Baltimore Orioles pitcher, Steve Bechler, who was taking not steroids but rather a supplement, found out the hard way that there is a price to pay to be "competitive. Steve died by overdosing on ephedra. ... In a recent editorial by Todd Jones, relief pitcher for the Colorado Rockies, "They talk to a journeyman who is 27 and is petering out at 89 mph. ... According to Todd Jones, "steroids, in fact, is not the right term. ...

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People such as Bob Douglas, Mickey Fox, Ritchie Spears, Brian Heaney, Steve Konchalski, and Bill Robinson, who through different roles have made and continue to make an impact on basketball in this province. ... "The two strong teams made the Atlantic Universities Athletic Association the strongest conference in the country for the first time as Acadia or SMU captured five national championships during the decade." (1) Some of the star university players during that time period were Mickey Fox, Steve Konchalski, and Fred Perry, all of whom are still very active within the Nova Scotia basketba...

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In an interview for Newsweek with senior research fellow at Pew Internet & American Life Project, Steve Jones, states that college students" game of choice is "Grand Theft Auto 3" (Are Games Good?). ...

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In an interview for Newsweek with senior research fellow at Pew Internet & American Life Project, Steve Jones, states that college students" game of choice is "Grand Theft Auto 3" (Are Games Good?). ...

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Punk music has gone through an evolution ever since the punk explosion in the late seventies. Although today's punk music retains most of the ideology and sound that defines the punk genre, there are some distinct differences between Nineties and Seventies punk. Most of the punk bands to emerge and ...

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He started to play with many greats like, Bill Evans, Chic Corea and Elvin Jones, and started to strongly use a vibraphone instead of a piano. ... Some of these artists included Gary Burton, Chick Corea, Jimmy Raney, Al Haig, Steve Swallow, Airto Moreira and JoAnne Brackeen. ...

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Nike Inc. The topic that I have chosen to do a research project on is Nike Inc. I chose to do my research on Nike because I am for one, very much interested in Nike, and secondly I am very interested in Nike's clothing, shoes, and accessory line. Basketball players "wanna be like Mike-, but ...

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A man of such inspirations, of such musical talent. A god among all other guitarists. This is Eric Patrick Clapton. He has and still is living a great musical life. Eric has been through many bands and a great solo career. He has also had his rise and falls in life. This is the story of Eric Cl...

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Company Officers Mark Benioff Chief Executive Officer, Chairman of the Board and Founder Steve Cakebread Chief Financial Officer Frank van Veenendaal Senior Vice President, Sales Dave Moellenhoff Chief Technical Officer Parker Harris Senior Vice President, Research and Development Jim Cavalieri Chief Information Officer Jim Steele President, Worldwide Operations Kari Straley Director of Corporate Communications Business Philosophy Salesforce.com was founded in March 1999 with the intent to make traditional enterprise software technology and business models o...

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Universe), was told by Arthur Jones (inventor of the Nautilus exercise machines) about a new "chemical" that the soviets were using (Thorne & Embleton 535). ... Steve Courson, a former offensive lineman for the Pittsburgh Steelers, as a result of taking steroids during his football career, he now suffers from heart disease (Anabolic Steroids, par.11). ...

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Sellers 2-4-1999 Oklahoma 16 Christopher Thomas 1-10-2000 Virginia 17 Steve E. ... Jones 8-8-2002 Texas 17 Toronto Patterson 8-28-2002 Texas 17 You can see the dominance of juvenile executions in Texas and Virginia. ...

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It was generally believed that the assassination of President Kennedy on Friday, November 22, 1963, in Dallas Texas was the action of the one alleged assassinator, Lee Harvey Oswald. However there appears to be sufficient evidence to suggest that Lee Harvey Oswald was in fact a scapegoat hiding the real perpetrators. It is an extreme unlikelihood that Lee Harvey Oswald could have assassinated Kennedy. There were certain elements, which has lead people to assume that Kennedy's death was a well-planned governmental and criminal conspiracy. There is also a believed to have been a cover up of...

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He broke the Kathleen Willey story: she was the reluctant witness for the Paula Jones defense team-a White House employee who was "comforted" by the president when she feared her husband might be in trouble. ... Steve Silberman, a writer for Wired magazine, had a grudging praise for Matt Drudge with his role in the Clinton/Lewinsky story in one of his columns: "It's a Drudge World After All": "In Drudge's world, which is our world now, the act of uncovering what was formerly hidden - of getting the skinny, routing around bureaucratic firewalls, defying the spin-doctors to tap the ...

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Women in the News: Discrimination or Just Nature of the Game? As a child I recall how perfect, intelligent, and elegant the news women would appear, and would want nothing more than to be on that screen. My brother and I would pick out the most attractive news men and women and pretend to be that perfect news team as we relay the neighborhood events to an audience of dolls and bears. It was entertaining for us; just a game. Now that I"m seriously considering this occupation, I want to know more about what I"m getting into. ...

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What exactly is a cult, one may ask. It is like a gang, except it can sometimes be in a sense closer. In gangs people still have there different points of view, in cults people are brainwashed, in a good or bad sense, to all have the same ideas and morals. Cults make people want to join because most of the time they make promises to the potential followers, whether it is drugs, sex, money, or even paradise. Now, what would drive a person to join a cult such as the Charles Manson family? ...

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