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...fact, HUPD officers have almost a hundred different areas they can request training in, from mountain bike patrolling to diversity training, from interrogation to Rape Aggression Defense (RAD) instructor training...
...like, trying to beat a policy wonk at policy wonking, Bush should be sketching, with strong, simple, repetitive clarity, the principles that he stands for, as opposed to those Gore represents. Gore is vulnerable as a throwback liberal, a big- government, all-daddy statist whose big rock candy mountain mentality assumes that the lemonade springs and the bluebird sings, and little need be done to encourage capital investment. The long prosperity has produced a certain heedlessness about the economic facts of life...
...fought only in the West. David Govus owns 250 acres in the mountains of North Georgia, next to the 750,000-acre Chattahoochee National Forest, a haven for migratory pitted warblers, oven birds and other species that flourish amid the May apples and jack-in-the-pulpits, rare mountain orchids and yellow lady slippers. In the late 1800s, despite decades of heavy logging, there remained thousands of acres of unbroken forest thick with giant hardwoods. "Some of it could be like that again," says Govus. "It might take 400 to 500 years, but look at what we could leave...
What is the mountain's name?" Don Domingo asks, in the Quechua language, from the back of the Ford Club Wagon...
...Domingo, en route to Manhattan from a place in the Andean clouds, has other priorities. The "mountain" in question is a 20-ft.-high, graffitied roadside outcropping identical to dozens of others between Newark Airport and the Lincoln Tunnel. The van's Anglo contingent is fairly sure that the rocky bluff has no name. Don Domingo consults perplexedly with his companions Don Martin, Don Nicolas, Don Andres, Don Hilario, Don Ascencio and Don Juan Gabriel. This place is stranger than they had imagined...