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Re: "Reasonable Doubt"
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twosleepy
07/02/08 08:21 PM
Having 12 people (normally), all with their own versions of "reasonable doubt", creates an automatic "filter", if you will, that tends toward the center. They all need to work towards agreement, and that does eventually happen in most cases. I suspec
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"Reasonable Doubt"
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TheFallibleFiend
07/02/08 06:58 PM
In criminal cases in my state, a defendant is presumed innocent until the prosecutor can prove his guilt "beyond a reasonable doubt." However, the term "reasonable doubt" is not defined, presumably being left to the discretion of the individual juro
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Re: 287 minutes
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BranShea
07/02/08 02:06 PM
He always runs where others walk......but about mjollnir,
Mjollnir means "crusher," referring to its pulverizing effect. It is related to words such as the Icelandic verbs mölva ("to crush") and mala ("to grind"), but similar words, all st
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Re: Widow's Peak
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LukeJavan8
07/02/08 02:05 PM
I had a widow's peak at the top of my forehead, but alas now my forehead reaches to the crown of my head!!
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Re: the apostrophe as discussed today in wordsmith.
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LukeJavan8
07/02/08 02:02 PM
I was in the "land hurricane" that hit our city with 116 mph winds last week and lost my power for 5 day. Not a tornado, mind you. I just noticed the nice things that were mentioned by
zmjezhd said. Thank you very much, I'm much appreciative.
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Re: the apostrophe as discussed today in wordsmith.
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LukeJavan8
07/02/08 01:56 PM
Not to cast aspersions on anyone's beliefs, but St. Ethelreda holds the people in her hearts and prayers? I really wonder.
How does that affect grammar. Seems to be stretching it a bit
Fr. Steve. As the pook says, it must be just a convent
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Re: 287 minutes
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zmjezhd
07/02/08 09:58 AM
The Shanyagir had a word for thunder but not for lightning?
Who knows? I suppose that Chuchan of the Shanyagir tribe spoke some sort of Tungusic language, but was speaking with I M Suslov in Russian or being translated for him by some bil
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Weekly Themes
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Re: Doctors' Hospital
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BranShea
07/02/08 09:50 AM
I know of Noon Street and Sunset Boulevard, would there also be
Dawn Lane?
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Re: 287 minutes
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BranShea
07/02/08 09:46 AM
Never met a Shanyagir.
Shanyagir These are pages on Shanyagir.
Thunder This specifically about that thunder.
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Re: 287 minutes
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Faldage
07/02/08 06:08 AM
I dunno. He tosses off the term 'thunder' like it's a normal thing and then says 'what the Russians call lightning.' The Shanyagir had a word for thunder but not for lightning?
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