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This note concerns your remarks anent AWOL . My long-past military duty leads me to recall that the O stands for Official , and is not meant to be a part of without .
Park Street Church stands on a site whose nickname comes from Brimstone Corner (some say for the fiery sermons delivered by such figures as Henry Ward Beecher and William Lloyd Garrison, who delivered his first anti-slavery speech here in 1829, others because gunpowder was kept in the basement during the 1812 War).
The second free-spirit-mom-on-the-run-with-teen-age-daughter story in three months receives much better reviews than the first ( Anywhere But Here ): It "impresses with its freshly considered action and total avoidance of the stale and routine" (Jay Carr, the Boston Globe ). British stage actress Janet McTeer's performance as the mother stands out, and the low-budget, genuine feeling of the film results in "one of the few movies ever made that doesn't feel like a movie," in which the characters "throb and course with life" (Stephen Hunter, the Washington Post ). (Click to read David Edelstein's review in Slate .)
Calibration curves are shown in Figure 1. Of the four systems, SAPS II stands out as deviating from the identity line in most of the strata, including those with large numbers of patients.
The President's legislative approach stands in sharp contrast to the complex web of existing regulations which currently confront the industry.