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Tribal councils are upset by passages referring to sexual practices, including homosexuality, oral sex as part of the marriage ceremony, the sodomizing of war prisoners and a brief mention of a woman who delivered a child and then ate some of the afterbirth. For the straitlaced Sioux, these references are a bit much. "The Lakota, next to the Cheyenne, were one of the most sexually restrained native societies that have been documented," says Sioux Anthropologist Bea Medicine. Adds JoAllyn Archambault, a Lakota Sioux studying for her Ph.D. in anthropology at Berkeley: "No one's objecting to what did happen...
...hours of oral arguments, attorneys for the plaintiff called the law a "mammoth piece of legislation...awesome in its magnitude," and complained that property owners were deprived of their right to dispose of their property as they wished under...
...Students are given free tuition, room and full board and a $600-a-month stipend. "I was determined to open this school even if there was but one applicant," said Matsushita in the inaugural address. There were, in fact, 907 applicants, but just 24 passed the grueling written and oral entrance exam. Says new Principal Yasushi Hisakado: "We looked for those exuding ambition...
Whatever the case, both Washington and the Swiss denied that Carter had sent the message to Khomeini. Ghotbzadeh then shifted ground, saying that the message was an oral communication from an intermediary and that he himself had translated it into Farsi...
...poems of Mouin Beseisso. "The partisans and fighters name Beseisso the poet of the revolution," came the message. "Let us hear his voice and his poems once more." Palestinian audiences listen with rapt attention to his strong, highly political verse, whose cadences reflect the long tradition of oral history and the loneliness of the desert. "Before the bullet there was the poem," says Beseisso, 50. "In the days of the tribes, it was not enough to have a leader. They had to have a poet." Born in Gaza, he published his first collection of poems, The Battle, as a student...