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Some say the artwork blurs the line between church and state; others consider it sacrilegious to have Mexico's patron saint pictured surfing.

The sagacious painter had a truer insight into this matter than most of our modern educationists.

With unemployment in some parishes above 25 percent, sardonic bumper stickers entered state lore: “Last one out, turn off the lights.”

Inevitably there were instant faux feeds on Twitter with satirical commentary about Bin Laden’s death, including Ghost Osama and Osama in Hell.

Many Americans reside in food deserts—communities where retailers offering fresh food are scarce but fast-food restaurants and convenience stores selling prepared foods can abound.

After building a market worth at least $6 billion, fair trade is undergoing a schism, with Fair Trade USA splitting off.

Mr. Gates also was scornful of the top deal makers: “Russian democracy has disappeared, and the government is an oligarchy run by the security services.”

Days before Thanksgiving, AT&T's heavyweight lobbying team was busy setting up meetings with antitrust authorities scrutinizing the company’s $39 billion acquisition of T-Mobile.

On the 3rd of November a revolution broke out at Panama, and the state seceded from Colombia and declared itself to be an independent republic.

There is a growing body of research showing that very active women are less likely to develop breast cancer than their sedentary peers.

For something like eleven summers I've written things that aimed to teach Our careless mealy-mouthéd mummers To be more sedulous of speech.

Web semantics developers in recent years have trained computers to classify news topics based on intuitive keywords and recognizable names.

Emotions and intelligence are connected with nerve structures in all sentient beings that we have experience and knowledge of.

Nissan has taken on a more aggressive marketing approach in recent months in Brazil, where car sales have hit sequential records for four years.

Serendipity is a recurring theme in Chandler's biography, with one happy accident after another pushing him in a certain direction.

Their Sibylline books have prophesied the fall of Rome, though they use the name 'Babylon.'

Supertaskers can juggle simultaneous tasks without experiencing a drop in attention or focus, which flies against the conventional wisdom about how the human brain functions.

His lawyer Heather Boxeth has said O'Neal relapsed by drinking alcohol after five years of sobriety and was in rehab.

Then, feeling that this sorrow required solitude, one after another slipped away, slowly, gently, and on tiptoe, leaving Helen alone with her husband's body.

Nature and the spiritual, without this embodied intelligence, this somatic being, called man or angel or ape, are as ermine on a wax figure.

You might be tempted to think of the biggest airline as the one with the most aircraft, but capacity differences make this reasoning specious.

Bisher covered a spectrum of sports — including football, baseball, horse racing, auto racing and boxing — that reflected the tastes of his Southern readership.

In his solo concerts since the 1970s, Mr. Jarrett has committed himself to spontaneous improvisation, to ideas that surface in the moment.

Sedan.—No genuine stamps ever existed; all were spurious.

There was trouble going on here and there, petty wars and political squabbles.

He laid up the money that he earned, instead of squandering it, as young men in his situation often do, in transient indulgences.

Services, accounting for about three quarters of the economy, stagnated with zero growth.

But these were searching days for everyone, when physical endurance and mental stamina were stretched to their furthest limit.

Steadfast in his convictions and imperturbable under pressure, Mr. Miller was the ultimate iconoclast.

People were much the same, she thought, in every class; there was no stratification of either rightness or righteousness.

For several seconds he remained standing quite motionless and breathless, staring in stupefied amazement at the dark outline of the enemy.

The ancient Romans ruled the world by subjugating the remotest nations, pillaging and breaking them down.

Once more the waves had subsided, and an almost flat calm prevailed.

Mr. Stewart has promised to stay on until a successor is hired.

The city is rich in antiquities, in historic buildings associated with illustrious names, in works of art and in sumptuous palaces.

Those arguments are not necessary, they are all supererogatory, like idle words.

He looked at them as if further talk were redundant, superfluous, unnecessary, a waste of time, and an insult.

After vampires and shape shifters, now fairies are added to the fun supernatural mix.

Comic books, the convention’s original focus, have been superseded by movies, video games and action figures.

But, after all, these supplementary aids, though valuable, are deficient in guiding power.

Bitterly, in blood and heartbreak and long suppression, they had been weighed down under superior force: but now the time of reprisals had come.

In this surreal world, music records smell like different colors, foods tastes like specific noises, and sound comes in all varieties of textures and shapes.

Furs have renewed my clothing, and I have never wanted for sustenance—chiefly nuts, fruits and vegetables.

Sycophants climb over the wall—but their flattery and fawning grow tiresome.

Mrs. Smiley spoke almost at the same moment but never precisely synchronous with Wilbur's whisper.