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I didn't even know you could "abridge" a CD of a book.
Via GottaLaff (h/t Julie and Micheal (Symbolman) of Going Rouge fame):
Abridged. Her CD is abridged, just like everything else Barbie McLipSchmutz undertakes. Or should I say, underta--
I wonder if she quit mid-sentence. Oh wait. I just made the assumption she could read. Silly moi.
Maybe her ghostreader learned basic ...
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The Style magazine insert in the Sunday Times is one of the guilty pleasures I anticipate each week. Before I was able to indulge my full blown writerly, prose-envying crush on A.A. Gill in his "Table Talk" column this afternoon, there was much gender mythology to wade through by two dudes young and old. To be fair there was also a woman contributing to the identity fables concerning ...
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... : JackBlack
Subject: Tale from the Tobacco Road
Posted: Nov. 11 2009 at 4:06pm
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" ="Msonormal">I believe that when you abridge anyone’s rights you abridge mine. Most of my uncle’s family did not make it out of Austria during WWII. Standing by while they are taking away some one else’s rights is not an option for me.
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... like paying an actor to perform the thing, so they always insisted that the author abridge the book down to a particular length to help on production costs.
When the full transition to CD ... that with a book unabridged, people would be more likely to buy it. Plus I didn't have to abridge anything.
Regardless, I didn't get the audio on Tower. Like I said, bittersweet.
This time around, with ...
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... content on the Internet.
And Net Neutrality -- a rule that would protect Internet users from cable and phone efforts to censor you online or to discriminate against your favorite Web sites -- would abridge the speech rights of phone and cable companies.
Just repeating his argument shows how silly -- and offensive -- it is. McSlarrow specifically said that cable companies would " ...
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... a two-page handwritten law suit filed by an Indiana-based prisoner who seeks custody of the 16 children borne by Kate Gosselin and Nadya Suleman, the so-called Octomom.
I would try to abridge the text of the filing, but you really need to read this yourself.
The action, 09-cv-189WTL-DML, contains allegations that have yet to be proven by a court. Even if it's an elaborate ...
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... answer is "No." President Obama’s distinction as to where things are to be judged is clarifying. For the religious person, the judgment for sin is in the next world, not this one. We made that choice a long time ago because the interpreters of god’s law regularly used their power to abridge other people’s rights. Our Founders thought that was a crime and a sin…
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... a second time, with him conducting.
The Meditations are in translation from Solomon Ibn Gabirol, 11th-century Spanish poet. Kernis sets them with admirable fidelity, or at least an unwillingness to abridge them so that the symphony would be less than eighty minutes long. Kernis describes the work as a spiritual testament, necessary to him despite a generally secular life, and I respect that. But ...
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... threat to personal freedom in this country – is that the positivists are carrying the day. Under their sway, the government violates the law while busily passing more legislation to abridge our liberties.
If we wish to survive the near future with our rights intact, we need to understand the size and scope of the threat. We must also understand its true identity: a government that breaks ...
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... born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person ...
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... a 10-15 slide PowerPoint presentation and a 1750-2450 word paper on Prisons and Jails PrisonerÂ’s Rights - Explain the conflict between safeguarding a prisonerÂ’s constitutionality protected rights and the stateÂ’s authority to abridge those rights in order to protect its own interest and the interest of its citizens. Propose recommendations to remedy this conflict.
(Due November 19th)
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... Mr. Kemple to give up his freedom of expression. The First amendment protects Kemple's speech and religious views. Kemple should read the 14 amendment.
No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person ...
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... a very large part of the library of the Greek writers....And Cassiodorus regarded him as a most eloquent translator, who translated Origen's Commentary even more eloquently....
He requested that Rufinus abridge the work to half the space...Thus Rufinus kept his word to Heraclius: He compressed the Greek work to precisely half the space.
Rufinus's open admission of having substantially ...
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... a consolidated case in which the Supreme Court in 1873 first interpreted the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Under the Fourteenth Amendment -
No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any ...
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... in a textbook,, by . . . "
The machine cut me off and asked if I wanted to add to my message or re-record. I opted to re-record, as I wasn't sure exactly where I had left off. I decided to abridge for my second attempt:
"Hi, this is Kayla Hewitt with . I am calling to follow up on the status of a permission request I sent in September. My phone number is xxx-xx . . . ...
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