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Wrongs in themselves; acts morally wrong; offenses against conscience.
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Iraqi Arab poet Nazik al-Mala'ika is a popular figure in Arab literature not just because of his use of creative, experimental poetry. She has also been known for her systematic critiques and her ideas about the artistic, linguistic and intellectual issues regarding modern Arabic literature. However, it is unfortunate that her translated poems are often those which reflect her sadness, pessimism and confusion. It must be noted that some of her poems are patriotic, optimistic and defiant.
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Uribe's commitment to democracy was revealed again in June 2008, when the Colombian Supreme Court sentenced a member of the Colombian Congress to house arrest for accepting bribes from the Uribe government in exchange for supporting the 2004 constitutional amendment allowing for presidential reelection.
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By Stan Fisher Register Correspondent
In his final administrative task before departing Region 17, school Superintendent Gary Mala has prepared a $38.44 million budget for the school system in 2011-12, a 2.87 percent increase from current spending.
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Kanawha County school officials want retailers to know that trademarked school logos, mascots and even phrases cannot be sold on T-shirts and other merchandise without permission or a contract.
Mala Bumgardner, executive secretary in Kanawha County Schools' Office of the General Counsel, sent one "cease and desist" letter asking a local retailer to stop selling school-related items. She did not name the store.
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Trying to advance education in Region 17 while maintaining fiscal austerity, school Superintendent Gary Mala has assembled a budget recommendation for 2008-09 that totals $36.35 million.
As proposed to the school board for the Haddam and Killingworth system, Mala's budget means spending $1.8 million more in the next fiscal year, an increase of 5.4 percent that Mala said is "the lowest in my four years (as superintendent) that's been proposed.
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The True Memoirs of Little K" is a peculiar novel that is both all over the place and nowhere at all. It's a faux memoir about a real person that masquerades as historical fiction.
Mala, as protagonist Mathilde Kschessinska is known in Adrienne Sharp's book, was a real person. She became Russia's prima ballerina assoluta through her skills at dancing and seducing Czar Nicholas II (who nicknamed her Little K). Like her peers, she underestimated the force of the 1917 Russian Revolution and fled with her son and what riches she could pocket to Paris.
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Throughout, [Gus Van Sant] pays loving attention to the cultural details of the time. After all, they're more or less the details of Van Sant's career, as well. From the white-brown male romance Mala Noche in 1985, through Drugstore Cowboy and My Own Private Idaho to the schoolboy legends of Elephant, Last Days, and Paranoid Park, filmmaker Van Sant has charted a succinct but deliberately homoerotic course through a neglected subtext of the American experience. He admires troublemakers. [Harvey Milk] fits the mold perfectly, even though Milk uncharacteristically tackles (you'll excuse the expression) a straight historical subject. Milk became a legend even before his untimely death- that's undoubtedly what appealed to Van Sant. He, [Sean Penn], Brolin, and company wallop Dustin Lance Bl...
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MALA has three goals: (1) to foster public discourse by offering more pluralistic views on hemispheric affairs, (2) to offer constructive media criticism together with civic participation tools for acting on that criticism, and (3) to mobilize our diverse constituencies to become active in the media justice movement. Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting made the point that matters: "Were a similar event to happen in the U.S., and TV journalists and executives were caught conspiring with coup plotters, it's doubtful they would stay out of jail, let alone be allowed to continue to run television stations, as they have in Venezuela.
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - In Turkey, there's home delivery, and in Mexico, there's valet parking. In China, Whoppers come with spicy "mala" sauce, and in South Korea they come with sweet and sour "bulgogi" topping.
Burger King is finally getting serious about building a worldwide empire.