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29 Oct 2014, 2:02 am
Walter McDougall’s history of the U.S. from 1929-1877, Throes of Democracy, credits Charles Dickens’s character Martin Chuzzlewit for speaking for foreign visitors when he wrote of American conversation as: …barren of interest, to say the truth; and the greatest part of it may be summed up in one word: Dollars. [read post]
15 Mar 2009, 2:48 pm
After the audit, Detroit Mayor Ken Cockrel Jr. and Police Chief James Barren shut down the lab. [read post]
24 Apr 2022, 8:46 pm
But one of the most striking things about the interactive map is just how barren some states are when it comes to finding places to charge up. [read post]
28 Feb 2014, 4:31 am
Shami, a militant who American officials say is living in the barren mountains of northwestern Pakistan, is at the center of a debate inside the government over whether President Obama should once again take the extraordinary step of authorizing the killing of an American citizen overseas. [read post]
14 Sep 2020, 11:48 am
The flames have destroyed neighborhoods, leaving a barren, gray landscape in their wake, driven tens of thousands of people from their homes and cast a shroud of smoke over the region. [read post]
10 Sep 2008, 10:20 am
And that is the reason for this post… In their heartwarming and humorous book entitled, "Kamp Olympik", Don and Theresa tell about the wonderful summer camp they founded in the scenic New Jersey Pine Barrens in 1967. [read post]
29 Jan 2006, 8:03 pm
And all of this is within shouting distance of the coast and its barren, gothic landscape.There is a lot being done to help the coast, including by lawyers, law students and law schools (including mine) volunteering their time to help those on the coast in need, but a lot more needs to be done. [read post]
18 Feb 2008, 3:10 pm
Through the welter of blood at the irrigation ditch, through the sham charity and shallow philanthropy of famine relief committees, the great harvest of Los Muertos rolled like a flood from the Sierras to the Himalayas to feed thousands of starving scarecrows on the barren plains of India.Falseness dies; injustice and oppression in the end of everything fade and vanish away. [read post]
27 Apr 2007, 3:10 am
He was descended from a long line of drunken peasants who in hundreds of years of non-trying had failed to escape the stinky-ass backwater of the Talitsky region, a barren landscape of mud and weeds whose history is so undistinguished that even the most talented Russian historians struggle to find mention of it in imperial documents. [read post]
27 Mar 2010, 1:00 pm
Worse, the story produced a barren doctrinal and political account of the Fourth Amendment. [read post]
25 Feb 2019, 11:00 am
Grey areas are barren land or ice covered. [read post]
14 Nov 2023, 7:56 pm
The highly saline water can render land barren for years. [read post]
18 Aug 2010, 9:23 pm
" No offense to Nevandans (my mom’s from there), but 90% of the state is barren and worthless. [read post]
8 Dec 2008, 4:43 pm
Which seems both a bit barren and a good idea at the same time.Indiana University's Law Journal has a blog, The Indiana Law Journal Supplement, as an adjunct to its regular law review publications. [read post]
24 Feb 2008, 11:49 pm
Due to a history of regrettably minimalist supervisory employment practices, however, the record is barren of evidence apart from the assertions of Judge Donnelly and Magistrate Polito to this effect. [read post]
20 Jan 2008, 5:35 am
This was because of men's strong sexual desires, or their wish to have children in case of being married to a barren wife. [read post]
24 Jan 2013, 2:00 am
What starts off as a seemingly spacious, clean (though barren and dimly lit) environment, soon changes. [read post]
13 Mar 2012, 1:33 pm
Soon, the bucolic countryside is barren wasteland and the factory town is only revitalized by Mr. [read post]
7 Nov 2011, 7:30 am
The result was a barren, erosion-prone stretch of the river with an unhealthy pH, too much sediment, and not enough dissolved oxygen. [read post]
22 Sep 2011, 6:20 pm
Rather, as the Justice eventually clarified to Benedict, “Those comments were predicated on certain facts that we did not know (and could not have known) at the time of our decision and of which I was not fully aware until your talk — namely, that the city’s development plan had never materialized and, as a result, years later, the land at issue remains barren and wholly undeveloped. [read post]
