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...quite to the point—he himself realizes its superiority to any E., however A. His illustration includes one of the key “Wake Up the Grader” phrases—“It is absurd.” What force! What gall! What fun! “Ridiculous,” “hopeless,” “nonsense,” on the one hand; “doubtless,” “obvious,” “unquestionable,” on the other, will...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Grader’s Reply | 5/17/2006 | See Source »

...quite to the point—he himself realizes its superiority to any E., however A. His illustration includes one of the key “Wake Up the Grader” phrases—“It is absurd.” What force! What gall! What fun! “Ridiculous,” “hopeless,” “nonsense,” on the one hand; “doubtless,” “obvious,” “unquestionable,” on the other, will...

Author: By A Grader, | Title: A Grader’s Reply | 1/12/2006 | See Source »

...discover that an arrest for littering a few years back makes him ineligible to serve in the Vietnam War, a war he detests. The narrator, asked if he’s rehabilitated himself after his crime, loses his cool. “You got a lot a damn gall,” he explodes, “to ask me…if I’m moral enough to join the army, burn women, kids, houses, and villages after bein’ a litterbug.”As the debate over the Solomon Amendment plays out in the Supreme...

Author: By Samuel M. Simon, | Title: Solomon’s Other Song | 12/12/2005 | See Source »

...this issue affects UND’s American Indian students. I grew up immersed in the Dakota/Lakota culture, attending traditional ceremonies such as the Inipi (sweat lodge), Wiyang Wacipi (sun dance), and the Hanbleceya (vision quest). My family has a rich, proud history. We are descendants of Gall and Rocky Buttes. These were women and men who fought along side Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse at the Battle of the Little Bighorn in 1876.Today, debilitating diseases such as diabetes, alcoholism, heart disease, and suicide affect our people at a rate more than three times the national average. Due to these...

Author: By Waste’win yellow lodge Young, | Title: A Name to Fight Against | 10/17/2005 | See Source »

...ASIATIC BLACK BEAR is vanishing from mountainous regions of East Asia, Central Asia and Southeast Asia because bile from its gall bladder is used to treat cancer, asthma and other ailments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Vanishing Victuals | 9/26/2005 | See Source »

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