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...dead people) were, let alone the boundaries of the country (they died in).'' he says. Walsh is talking "bulls__t," says Fraser, who has arranged for land to be set aside for a "keeping place" for the remains. "The stuff he knows about rock art and Aborigines was taught to him by my family. If they weren't our bodies, I wouldn't be running around trying to get them back.'' Fraser's request is simple: "We want our people back in the area they came from and let them rest in peace." There's likely to be more conflict...
...curricular review is the other main weapon in the limited arsenal of the administration. The freshman seminar program has been expanded, and Summers and University Provost Steven E. Hyman have both taught seminars...
...American imagination, this doppelganger King embodies the nation’s conscience; he taught us to live up to our American ethos of equality and justice for all. In a deeply Christian nation, this King becomes a modern-day Christ figure, dying for our collective sins of virulent white racism and frustrated black retaliatory rage, and leading us to a color-blind promised land that was our American destiny all along. But unfortunately for those who would cling to this fraudulent King and the sanitized version of American history he represents, no matter how many Apple Computer commercials or elementary...
...achievements!...Everyone will be tuned into everything that's happening all the time! No one will be left out. We will all be normal!" Crumb's family was anything but normal. His father was a "sadistic bully," his mother an amphetamine addict. In 1962, aged 18, their talented, self-taught son was taken on by a greetings-card company. Five years later he left his steady job to join the hippies in San Francisco. But he was too embarrassed to sport velvet and ringlets, and never felt like he belonged. O.K., he took drugs, but he carried right on working...
...feel smaller when your father dies because he was strong and lifted you, carried you and taught you, and when he's gone the room feels too big without him. So it was in St. Peter's Square, where pilgrims kept vigil, their faces traced in low light by candles, murmuring "Don't leave us." Among the believers was almost disbelief that death still comes even to a man this strong--the Holy Father who had carried his people so far, lifted them so high, taught them so much and now finally was slipping away...