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...Eagle Butte, S.D., Geri Gutwein has designed a writing project in which her ninth-grade students exchange letters with third-graders about stories they have read together. This year a few of her students will sit with Cheyenne women who tell tales as they knit together, their heritage becoming grist for today's young writers...
Elected to Parliament as its youngest Member at 29, Archer has had a tumultuous career. He was forced to give up politics and resign from Parliament five years later when bad investments left him near bankruptcy. Those misfortunes became the grist for his first best seller, Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less (1975), a title that his lawyer last week jokingly suggested should serve as a guide to the jury in setting damages. Archer's seven books have sold 30 million copies worldwide, making him a multimillionaire and, until last fall, a star on the Tory speaking circuit...
...Corporation's present function is largely dedicated toward financial matters and to milling the grist submitted to them by the various faculties. Few innovations come from the Corporation's twice-monthly meetings...
...unrelenting pursuit such as we ((the Tower board)) undertook, and such as the media undertook, that respect of the people for Government itself suffers unjustly. Disdain for Government leads the best people to shun service in that Government; less talented people are even more prone to provide grist for investigative reporting, which further tarnishes the image of Government...
...bard of the Beat Generation can still grind startling, creative, and provocative images from the grist mill of his modern America. A four-line poem entitled "Suprise Mind" reads...