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...under extremely extenuating circumstances.Growing up on the reservation, we were oblivious to the impoverished conditions that existed. Happiness came in the form of a deep respect and love of our culture. In addition we were protected and well guarded from outside influences by a small, tightly knit community.I was a young woman when I went to UND in 1997. I tried my best to fit in to the whole college scene, living in the dorm, going to dances, and attending a football game for the first time.At the game, I witnessed several of my white peers painted exorbitantly, with fake...

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

Nagin has to hope those initial measurements can be altered, and he does seem to have regained a bit of the reassuring and charismatic swagger that got him elected. Sporting silky black knit shirts, he often uses streetwise vernacular in his chats with the city's beleaguered residents. Visiting with a group of small-business owners last week, he urged them not to let large outside firms steal all the recovery business up for grabs. "Don't let 'em pull a razoo on you," he said, using the local slang for cheating at marbles. A day after dining on hickory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can New Orleans Do Better? | 10/16/2005 | See Source »

According to Cronenberg, it is particularly tough to cast a group of actors that are meant to resemble a close-knit family: “When you think about it, for example, I cast Viggo, and now I become like a dating service or a marriage counselor: I have to find him a wife...

Author: By Scoop A. Wasserstein, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Dualistic Philosophy of David Cronenberg | 9/30/2005 | See Source »

...manageable size (3 ft. by 3 ft. by 1 ft.). The market for parachutists' cycles being small, Montague's sales languished until the U.S. invaded Afghanistan in 2001. U.S. forces found the bikes ideal for moving quietly and without using scarce fuel. Word spread throughout the world's tightly knit military community; Montague has sold several thousand bikes to the military and other government agencies as well as to a number of foreign armies. Civilians shouldn't despair: they too can buy the camouflage-colored Paratrooper direct from Montague ($650) or at specialty shops. The only thing missing from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: For Mountain Biking in Afghanistan | 9/18/2005 | See Source »

Jumping on this trend for fall may be as simple as tossing some strings of wooden beads over a T shirt or a '70s knit cardigan with a belt over a school uniform, given that floppy hats and supersize sunglasses may not pass any classroom dress code. "When school starts, I'll carry my big backpack again," says Gross, who toted a droopy canvas bag all summer. "It ruins the outfit, but what are you going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Back To Boho | 8/29/2005 | See Source »

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