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Stanley is invisible, but he communicates with his operatives like the guy with the intercom in "Charlie's Angels." That's why the people who work at the Educational Centers always use the first-person plural. "We have researched this question type thoroughly," they say, speaking for themselves and for Stanley. "And we find that there are often two good answers, but only one really good answer...
...correct the factual errors. It is not only GSA members who are upset--alumni, professors, staff, and non-gay students are also concerned and have signed the petition Nor is it true that Pattullo was "clearly speaking as a layman" by signing his title and using the first person plural ("we would think [the discouragement of homosexuality] a good thing"), he suggests that his views reflect the policy of the Center...
Excerpt "Once in a while an adult said, 'Your grandfather built the railroad.' (Or 'Your grandfathers built the railroad. Plural and singular are by context.) We children believed that it was that very railroad, those trains, those tracks running past our house; our own giant grandfather had set those very logs into the ground, poured the iron for those very spikes with the big heads and pounded them until the heads spread like that, mere nails to him. He had built the railroad so that trains would thunder over us, on a street that inclined toward...
...practice of polygamy was also at issue. Young claimed that Smith, following private revelations, both preached and practiced polygamy. Smith's widow pointed out that her husband's Book of Mormon denounced plural marriage. The Reorganized Church has always been against the practice, though most historians believe Smith secretly took between 27 and 50 wives, including some women married to other...
...things and wonders about them and about what they will do next. The columns are breezy and interesting, 800 weekly words offering a glance at an issue or a man. It is a measure of Strout's talent that he can use that most pretentious of devices--first person plural--and still display a friendly and approachable, yet always impressive intellect...