Yesterday, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg stuck a shovel into the ground to mark the beginning of a $3.2 million project to transform an illegal dump in the Hunts Point section of the Bronx into Hunts Point Riverside Park.
At a monthly cannabis meetup by Lake Merritt in Oakland, the hosts have increasingly attracted marijuana enthusiasts who want to transform their illegal activities into legitimate businesses, according to organizer Sarah Ceti.
More specifically, the strategy that Rattigan uses in The Deep Blue Sea of changing the sex of one partner in order to transform an illegal relationship into an illicit one was a common one until the decriminalising of homosexuality in Britain in 1967, and perhaps subsequently to that, too.
Apart from its value to patients, medical marijuana plays an increasingly important role in local economies, transforming previously illegal jobs into legal ones and creating many new jobs as well, contributing to local tax bases and stimulating new economic activity.
At year's end, California's effort to transform its longstanding illegal and medicinal marijuana markets into a unified, multibillion-dollar industry remained a work in progress.
Yet from April 2016 something that's incredibly domestic will be transformed into an illegal substance.
Interestingly, in the early days of apartheid, Alan Paton followed up Cry the Beloved Country with Too Late the Phalarope, the tragic hero of which is an Afrikaner rugby star whose life is transformed through an illegal affair with a black girl.
It was founded by a well-meaning European philanthropist who helped local doctors during the war in Kosovo in 1999, but prosecutors said it was later transformed into an illegal organ transplant hub by Dr. Dervishi, a surgeon and professor at Pristina University Hospital.
In "The Visitor," a new film by Thomas McCarthy that opens in New York and Los Angeles on Friday, Mr. Jenkins plays Walter Vale, a lonely, bored and widowed economics professor who finds his orderly life shaken and then transformed by two illegal immigrants he discovers in his Manhattan pied-à-terre.
Doing so will only create incentive for more illegal immigration and transform the problem from bad to worse and perpetually doom health care reform in the long run.
