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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...couch where Laurie is sitting and tries to stab her, yet misses by four feet. This is the cheesiest, most irritating action that later slasher movies rip off. 8. No, I take it back. Every time Laurie thinks she’s slain the killer and drops the knife right next to him, take a shot. This truly is the cheesiest and most irritating action that is later ripped off. 9. When Michael disappears in the final scene after taking multiple bullets on top of multiple stab wounds. Only a true badass could do that and still...

Author: By Edward F. Coleman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: SCREENSHOTS: 'Halloween' | 10/31/2008 | See Source »

Effigies •of Obama hanging from noose •of Obama with butcher knife through his neck •of Palin hanging from noose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paul Slansky's Weekly Index of the News | 10/31/2008 | See Source »

Chief Dull Knife College is small--only 141 full-time students, although a few hundred more attend workshops or study part time. The median age is in the upper 20s; some students have worked to raise money for college, while others needed time to deal with addiction and, in some cases...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Postcard from Chief Dull Knife College | 10/16/2008 | See Source »

Courses at Chief Dull Knife are similar to those at any community college--English, history, math--but with a unique Northern Cheyenne flavor. Reading includes books like Cheyenne Autumn, a highly praised 1953 novel about the tribe's 1878-79 return to Montana after exile in Oklahoma. History classes teach America as experienced by both whites and Native Americans. Part of the curriculum is devoted to Northern Cheyenne culture and its complex language, which is still spoken by a few elders but almost no students. For decades, reservation schools were strictly English-only. The chairman of the Dull Knife board...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Postcard from Chief Dull Knife College | 10/16/2008 | See Source »

...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 of meth addiction. ("Very...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Postcard from Chief Dull Knife College | 10/16/2008 | See Source »

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