Word: givens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Such a prospect truly alarms Richard Leakey, the world-famous paleontologist who heads Kenya's wildlife department. Says he:"The elephant has been around a long time and has given such pleasure to so many and has the potential to give such pleasure to so many more. Should we allow it, through our inaction, greed and perhaps cowardice, to become an exotic on this continent? If not, how do we prevent...
...similar sort of success may await Some Can Whistle, McMurtry's 13th novel. If so, that will be a redemption of sorts for an uncharacteristical ly spotty performance between hard covers. Plot has given way to concocted situations, conversation displaced by laugh-track dialogue. Everything and everyone in the tale reeks of Hollywood, particularly the narrator...
Individual academic departments should be given resources to provide more specific services. Mentorship possibilities, an introduction to the departmental network and information on support services are all issues of special concern to women and minority graduate students that can best be addressed on the departmental level...
When her grandmother had given her the crossshe had said," When I die you will have this toremember me by. Jesus died for our sins, afterall." She had tried to smile...
...edges of the cross cut into her palm. Atthe time her grandmother had given her the crossshe had tried to be thankful but sincerity hadfaltered; she could only call up an imge of acrucified Jesus, blood streaming from hisforehead, the severed tendons in his hands andfeet. She had shivered and tried to thrust hisimage away from her; but it remained lodged in herthoughts...