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...course of study and its future: “Then I feel as if I were a fool to incur such a debt and undergo so much anxiety of mind just to become a rhymester and second-rate poet. I get disheartened and feel tempted to give up the scheme of education; to enter some active business, and throw all my literary tastes to the dogs...
Captain Cardwell Potts cautioned that without winning nationals, “the rankings don’t mean much in the great scheme of things”—a sign of the team’s high expectations for the future...
...later, It had an educational function as well: it taught kids that there was a higher form of animation than the cheap, stilted stuff they'd been exposed to on the many Hanna-Barbera series. Here was character created through line and movement, humor and heart in the grand scheme and the tiniest, Who-size details. Fabulous work all around...
...Mainstream political opposition leaders like Evans Paul, who is co-authoring a still-unfinished transition scheme called the Platform Democratique, promised a fresh democracy. ?We are committed to never again returning to a dictatorship in Haiti,? Paul insisted. ?We will show the world we can build a different Haiti...
...entry but says he saw a degree lifelessness in its starkness. “I think all of us kind of had our eyes wide open but were also looking for things to see if they validated our own predilections. And I was sort of looking for a scheme that boldly forested the site. That somehow said a forest is a healing thing...it opens our imagination,” says Van Valkenburgh...