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Littlebear, 68, has a doctorate in education from Boston University and is fluent in Cheyenne; he teaches evening courses in it. He refers to tribal colleges as "underfunded miracles." With a meager $4.9 million budget provided mostly by the Federal Government, his school operates on a thin shoestring indeed. But Chief Dull Knife College perseveres, holding out hope for a new generation of Northern Cheyennes. More than half its graduates now go on to four-year schools. One of them is Jennifer Wooden Legs, 29, daughter of the college-board chairman, whose academic career was postponed by five horrific years...
According to Esquire, he was chosen “because as a constitutional-law scholar who is fluent in Arabic and specializes in issues of church and state, he could become the public intellectual of our time...
...tricks, for instance, was to stack the candidates’ answers on top of each other, lining up their most frequently used words so you could see their context. John McCain may seem to have a smoother delivery style, but it turns out that his is less fluent than Barack Obama’s. McCain would often stop in the middle of a sentence or leave out a verb, while Obama’s more frequent pauses were always followed up by a completely formed idea.The software program takes care of most of the analysis, but it?...
...didn't, that's understandable. Most Americans are not particularly interested in the nuances of politics in Pakistan or the Middle East. But we should expect our leaders to be fluent in at least the basics of foreign policy. So far, Palin is still struggling for words...
...last decade - he was 82 when he died in 1992 - Bacon was almost too fluent in his own idioms of despair. There are cluttered, over-determined pictures in the last galleries, where you watch him trying to find a way to make it new. But there are also great ones, like the 1991 Triptych. In all three panels, a large black square is placed like a window within a flat, beige background. In the center, a figure barely recognizable as human flows over the lower edge of the black square. On each side panel, Bacon appears as a painted photograph...