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...missed the real story behind the "little signs." The people of Duluth are not Neanderthals (sic) overly wrapped up in their college hockey team. In fact, many probably don't know a face-off from a face lift. What they are acknowledging is the commitment to excellence of this group of student-athletes and their coaching staff. The difference between mediocrity and excellence in sports is very narrow, but it take extraordinary effort to bridge that gap. These players have given that effort-individually and collectively-and for that the community salutes them...
...live in a time when academic skills and orientation confer an advantage. In other times, other skills i.e. hunter, horseman, archer, etc, were more valuable[sic]. High academic achievers must realize, however, that they are in the minority in this country and certainly in the world as it is currently structured. Those of us with education can either put down our fellow man or reach down to insure that each has an opportunity to fulfill his destiny [sic...
Dear Nick Nerf (of the Boston Nerf's?) (sic...
...would be difficult to state this information any more clearly. And, given then [sic] fact that this text appears on the first and second pages of chapter one, it's hard to see how Mr. Duke could have missed...
...unused college swimming pool, revealing in a reverent tone that the photographers initially envisioned suing the Red Couch "to disturb the commonplace into something new, and then photograph the results." The presence of the sofa in every picture imposes self-consciousness on the photos, becoming a big red photographic sic; even the most naturalistic portraits of Americans on the couch seem deliberately contrived artistic statements. The sofa, whether positioned in a patrician living room, balanced on an Alaskan canoe, or dumped on Rajneeshian haystack demands that the viewer look at the aesthetic and intellectual content of a medium that...