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Comics have a problem, and that is continuity - the obsession with placing the characters in an existing world, where every event is marked in canon. You're supposed to believe that these weepy star boys of now are the same gung-ho super teens fighting space monsters in the '60s, and they've only aged perhaps five years. John Hodgman

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For over 200 years after the adoption of the Second Amendment, it was uniformly understood as not placing any limit on either federal or state authority to enact gun control legislation. John Paul Stevens

Under the common law, one of the more controversial rules is the 'no duty to rescue rule' that says that, if you were not responsible for placing someone in danger or risk, you have no obligation to help them, even when it would cost little to save their life. Jonathan Turley

Life You Obligation Law Duty Rule Danger Rules Says Responsible Would Cost Someone Risk More Were Controversial Common Common Law Placing Little Them Rescue Help Even Save

I do know that I love placing my stories in Michigan because, if you collect all the ideas, it turns the whole state into one kaleidoscopic, frightening place. Michigan as house of horrors. Josh Malerman

Love You State Collect Horrors Ideas Know House Because Frightening Michigan Stories Place Placing Turns Whole

I think people sometimes have a hard time placing me because I don't fit into a box. When they ask what I do at a cocktail party, I either say I'm a Renaissance woman or I'm a high-level madam. Lately I've been more comfortable saying I'm an artist, because that can cover a lot of different things. Liz Goldwyn

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On 30 June 2010, the FSB broke into my office again. They unplugged the Internet, opened the window and left the phone off the hook, placing it next to my laptop. The message was clear: we are still here. Luke Harding

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Like many modern poets, I tend to conceal rhymes by placing them in the middle of lines, and to avoid immediate alliteration and assonance in favor of echoes placed later in the poems. Margaret Atwood

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When Trump says no one loves women more than he does, what exactly is he referring to? Fantasizing about them on the 'Access Hollywood' bus? Placing them only in professional roles that answer to him? Mel Robbins

Usually when reporting on powerful public figures, the press advisor and I would have had a conversation that established what journalists call 'ground rules,' placing restrictions on what can and cannot be reported. Michael Hastings

Conversation Press Rules Would Restrictions Had Powerful Journalists Call Advisor Reported Reporting Established Cannot Placing Public Public Figures Ground Figures

Low income persons in need of social housing should be housed in more prosperous areas to avoid placing an extra burden on the poorer areas and to redress the balance in terms of housing, redressing the balance in terms of schooling. Najat Vallaud-Belkacem

Trying to be a good actor has to be involved with placing yourself imaginatively in different people's circumstances. Paul Bettany

Good Yourself People Circumstances Involved Trying Different Placing Good Actor Actor

In my case, I was placing extreme pressure on my lower spine from rotating my hips too much. This is a common cause of bad backs - and bad shots - for golfers of all levels. In addition to resting, I worked with my trainer, Joey Diovisalvi, on strengthening the weaker lower-body muscles that contributed to my overactive hips and back pain. Rickie Fowler

Cause Too Much Pressure Resting Pain Too Addition Back Extreme Backs Weaker Bad Joey Spine Case Hips Trainer Common Common Cause Placing Golfers Worked Much Lower Shots Rotating Levels Strengthening Muscles

Our scientists grapple with the difficulties of placing a man on the moon, but the immediately troubling concern of our society is whether men of different races can sit together at a lunch counter. Robert Kennedy

Man Together Moon Men Sit Lunch Society Difficulties Our Immediately Troubling Counter Concern Scientists Different Whether Placing Races

I grew up poor and white. While my class oppression has been relatively visible to me, my race privilege has not. In my efforts to uncover how race has shaped my life, I have gained deeper insight by placing race in the center of my analysis and asking how each of my other group locations have socialized me to collude with racism. Robin DiAngelo

Life Me Class Racism Oppression My Life White Group Other Analysis Relatively Visible Locations Has-Been Insight Shaped Uncover How Been Up Privilege Efforts Grew Center Gained While Placing Race Poor Asking Each Deeper Socialized

Education seems to be placing increased emphasis on assessment and tracking, which means parents are terrified that if their kid doesn't exceed their expected learning level at six years old, they are immediately put in the class that ends up working at McDonald's. Romesh Ranganathan

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Placing Margaret Sanger on the $20 bill will remind us of what she has done for women and our reproductive health and how the fight for reproductive freedom is an ongoing one. Roxane Gay

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Sometimes, you start with the drawing and then the gag comes to you in the middle of it. That is when you start working on the solution of the gag, which is composition, placing, equilibrium, and character design. Sergio Aragones

Character You Sometimes Design Drawing Solution Composition Equilibrium Middle Gag Which Placing Then Working Start

Tracking action without cutting is the least jarring method of placing the audience into a real-time experience where they are the ones making the subtle choices of where and when to look. Steven Spielberg

Experience Action Look Tracking Without Audience Making Least Method Where Subtle Placing Jarring Cutting Choices

This administration and the leadership in Congress appear to be intent on valuing wealth over work, thereby placing working families at a distinct disadvantage. Tim Bishop

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So paid media is when you buy an ad - typically in a presidential campaign that will be in Iowa, New Hampshire, the early states. It costs some money to make the ad, but the greatest cost is in actually placing the ad on TV. Zephyr Teachout

Buy You Money Will Presidential Presidential Campaign States TV Some Cost Costs New Make Iowa Greatest New Hampshire Hampshire Campaign Placing Paid Media Actually Ad Early

What I miss about football is being in the dressing room. But do I miss three o'clock on a Saturday afternoon when matters are totally out of your hands? No, I don't. Do I miss placing my destiny in the hands of others? No, I don't. I loved it as a player. I liked it as a manager. But that's all come and gone. Graeme Souness

Three Matters Gone Others Destiny Out Totally Dressing About Dressing Room Football Miss Come Liked Hands Manager Being Loved Afternoon Placing Room Your Saturday Player

Bush the father did well in placing his sons as governors and did not forget to pass on the expertise in fraud from the leaders of the region to Florida to use it in critical moments. Osama bin Laden

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