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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Like most campers, the Lakota teens swim and toast s'mores over the campfire. But these kids, most of them recruited from troubled reservation towns, are trying to break a grim cycle of alcoholism and despair by living as their forebears did: sleeping in teepees, traveling on horseback and learning their once forbidden language and ceremonies from tribal elders. "This camp is more than a camp," says Gregg Bourland, chairman of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe. "In a way it is the rebirth of the Great Sioux Nation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIAN SUMMER | 8/26/1996 | See Source »

...ringing of 'Hells Bells' by the rock group AC/DC. What makes this class unusual is that four of the newly-arrived, newly-shorn"knobs" who lined up are women. By 6:30 the four women and their classmates had marched off to a breakfast of eggs, bacon, hashbrowns, and toast followed by a motivational speech from senior Bryant Butler, the head of the Corps of Cadets. "A lone wolf does not make it here.," he told the assembled cadets. "No matter how tough it gets, you rely on each other." Last year, cadet Shannon Faulkner began "hell week" after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Ladies Of Discipline | 8/26/1996 | See Source »

...roaches therefore spend their time making often incomprehensible wise-cracks from under any object in Joe's nightmarishly filthy apartment that could be animated: false teeth, toast, lampshades etc. Payson's philosophy seems to have been to keep things moving, literally, at any cost...

Author: By Nicolas R. Rapold, | Title: MTV Flick Grows Old Quick | 7/30/1996 | See Source »

...matter who wins come November, thirsty voters can toast the Chief with these presidential brews. Creator David Kaufman is donating 25[cents] a case to reduce the national debt. Cheers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Jul. 29, 1996 | 7/29/1996 | See Source »

...think [Provost Albert Carnesale] is wrong," Williams said at the rally. "They say provost, I say milque toast. The University made a mistake when they cut the benefits for some of the part-time workers on campus, and it's a mistake to think that we will accept the same...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: HUCTW Rallies in Yard | 5/20/1996 | See Source »

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