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Human Needs Not Corporate Greed/March for Our Lives! (Monday, August 14): Similar to the Unity2000 march in Philadelphia, this promises to be the largest demonstration of the convention's opening day. Includes participation by ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now), Rainforest Action Network, International Socialist Organization, Queers For Racial & Economic Justice, Radical Student League, Clergy and Laity United for Economic Justice, Alliance for Democracy...
...minutes." Suspicious. Another floormate refutes Jane's claim: "It was posted for an hour or two before it was taken down." Other accounts confirm that the diagram found its way to a tackboard. The floormate even recalls a swarm of intrigued students huddled around it like squirrels over an acorn...
...beasts might spend several years in one gnarled oak, living comfortably with nine, perhaps ten, acquaintances. Should one resident grow weary of its vista, it might venture north toward the more spacious beeches or south toward the scenic riverside elms. With such freedom, it is no wonder that these acorn mongers live cheerful little lives...
...what's an authorized biographer to do? Morris revisited Reagan's old haunts, and while at Eureka College, in Eureka, Ill., he stepped on an acorn and realized that he wanted to write about Reagan's whole life with the same closeness he could legitimately bring only to the three years he shadowed him in the White House. And so Morris constructed a story that lies on the shoulders of a semi-fictional narrator, a modified version of himself. The bulk of the criticism of Morris' book, which has been as fast as it has been furious, rests with...
...that Mitch and Drew found a site to park the van. They had a clear view of the school's playground, enclosed by chain-link fence, a few hundred feet up the road. Three feet of sage grass, kudzu vines and an array of sapling oaks, sweet gums and acorn trees provided cover. For Mitch and Drew, the spot was perfect...