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| 22f1706 | One hundred years before the present government existed, a powerful leader, Sir William Berkeley, governor of Virginia, stated his views in clear, unflinching terms. "I thank God," he said, that "there are no free schools nor printing [in this land]. For learning has brought disobedience, and heresy, and sects into the world, and printing hath divulged them...God save us from both!" | critical-pedagogy education revival subversion | Jonathan Kozol | |
| e9c2332 | Pride in my father, thankfulness that he had been my father, and an ultimately grateful feeling of respect (grudging at first, it took a while to come) for the aching if imperfect love he never ceased to feel for Mom--these are the things I wanted to hold on to. It will soon be seven years since the night I bent down by his bed to press my ear against his chest and listen to his breathing as his life came to its end. But even now, and even .. | Jonathan Kozol | ||
| 49e0a3b | a very well-designed product that easily brings the computer and the TV together. | Apple TV | ||
| b36f755 | Look for instance at the notorious Dan Savage, the gay advice columnist whose work is featured in arts newspapers across the country. His language is habitually violent and obscene. He seems to be filled with hatred against anybody who believes in anything less than what the furthest advanced of the sexual revolutionaries demand. It's a mark of our madness and irresponsibility that this fellow, who is deeply unbalanced, is invited to public.. | Anthony Esolen | ||
| 1edd660 | As the columnist Dan Savage says, instead they point "to the suicide rate among gay teenagers--which the religious right works so hard to drive up ... as evidence that the gay lifestyle is destructive. It's like intentionally running someone down with your car and then claiming that it isn't safe to walk the streets."50" | Michael Shermer | ||
| 0c6e472 | Then, sadly, Dan died. It was a loss to me and to everyone who knew him. It seemed like an appropriate time for me to withdraw and let the book make its own way. But it was not so simple. Dan had captured peoples' hearts and imaginations. His story had touched readers who had never before given a thought to Native America. He had articulated the feelings of many Native people who had been seeking a voice by which to explain themselves to th.. | Kent Nerburn | ||
| 1040e4b | Dans son ouvrage provocateur, War Before Civilisation : The Myth of the Peaceful Savage, Laurence Keeley, anthropologue a l'universite de l'Illinois, a montre qu'il aurait fallu que l'armee allemande tue un million de civils en France lors de son offensive de mai 1940 pour atteindre le meme taux de mortalite que lors de certains conflits intertribaux. Et dans un article paru en 2007 dans le Journal of Human Evolution, Kim Hill, anthropologu.. | Jean-Jacques Hublin | ||
| 375f21e | The pretentious flaws of others affirm your own intellectual or aesthetic expertise. Simultaneously, their fakery highlights the contours of your down-to-earth character and virtuous ordinariness. It is your plain speaking that makes you trustworthy. That person's pretentious use of words hides the fact that they do not have anything of substance to say. Like the unnamed narrator of Thomas Bernhard's novel Woodcutters, watching guests arriv.. | Dan Fox | ||
| 79aa87c | Like other booster papers across the West, the weekly Tribune was a major instrument for town building, even if--or precisely because--it "sometimes represented things that had not yet gone through the formality of taking place."39 Western newspapers, like western railroads, often ran well ahead of settlement--a process that, in many bleak locales, was still waiting to happen." | J. Anthony Lukas | ||
| e096344 | the school environment [is] to balance the various elements in the social environment, and to see to it that each individual gets an opportunity to escape from the limitations of the social group in which he was born. | J. Anthony Lukas | ||
| 993f9f3 | Wo Men Shi Gen Ju Wen Ben Qu Guan Kan Xing Zhuang De | Molly Bang | ||
| 448f7f8 | Jesus Princess! You almost gave me a heart attack. I thought I had a girl in here." He flopped back onto his pillow, raking his hands over his face. That snapped me back to reality. "Chase?" "Hmm?" "Sorry you didn't seem to notice, but I am a girl." He dropped his hands and scowled at me but still proceeded to slowly take in my body. My cheeks were bright red by the time he looked back up. "I noticed last night, trust me." My question mark .. | Molly McAdams | ||
| 3acf3cb | Cracking one eye open, I saw Kash sitting on the edge of my bed just staring at me with an amused expression. "Can I help you?" I mumbled against the pillow. "I'm hungry and want pancakes." "You want . . . What are you, five?! Make your own. I even bought the easy-make pancakes last weekend. All you have to do is add water." I rolled over and groaned. "Seven thirty? Kash, we didn't get back from work until after one. You have got to stop wa.. | Molly McAdams | ||
| 0e879e1 | comes up very short. It's as if Apple had launched an iPod that sounded like a cassette player. | Apple TV | ||
| 5904574 | the first media streaming device I could imagine recommending to a non-geek. | Apple TV | ||
| 7e4ba9a | The roar of the motorcycle stopped, and the rider whipped off his sunglasses. "Are you trying to get your door taken off?" My heart had stopped the minute I'd looked into his piercing gray eyes, but anger quickly took over everything. "Do you always swing into parking spaces when someone is opening their door?" I rubbed my leg once more and stumbled awkwardly out of my car. I realized he hadn't answered me, and after shutting my door and lo.. | Molly McAdams | ||
| 3f9ec9f | This is so not fair! Can I have your boobs for just one night?" "Yeah, sure . . . let me just take them off," I said, deadpan. "Tell me, Candi, do I look all right?" "Uh, yeah. I'd do you." I snorted, "You're disgusting." "You love me." Rolling my eyes, I walked into my bathroom and put on some perfume. "It's true." Just" | Molly McAdams | ||
| ab0b8f9 | The one standing closest to Candice, who reintroduced himself as Mason, had arms so massive, I swear the sleeves of his shirt were about to tear from how much they were stretching against the bulging muscles. To be honest, they were kind of frightening. He had tribal tattoos coming down both arms, stopping halfway down; a killer smile; and dominating eyes. But then he picked me up in a big bear hug, and all freaky thoughts of him melted awa.. | Molly McAdams | ||
| 7c8b532 | Oh, this is the most tragical thing that has ever happened to me! | Anne of Green Gables | ||
| cff5d77 | I like the name Logan. You should stick with it. It sounds much better than Kash." Mason snorted and Candice groaned into her hand before gasping and pointing at me. "Wait! You know him?" "Yeah, he tried to take my car door off this afternoon when I got back." Kash . . . Logan--whatever his name was--stopped sucking on his lip ring and I had the strangest urge to take over that lovely task for him. "You know, we could always turn that aroun.. | Molly McAdams | ||
| be7c0b0 | We're from far West Texas." I let that linger for a moment before turning and shooting him a grin. "Otherwise known as California." "Smart-ass." He smiled wide and I forced my eyes back on the road. Oh Lord, that smile was perfect. "Let me guess. College?" "Yep." "Isn't it summer? Wouldn't you want to go home during vacation?" "Uh, yeah. It is . . . but Candice has a cheer camp for elementary-school girls she's working at this summer. And w.. | Molly McAdams | ||
| a4b773d | Do you want another?" Kash asked with a lazy smile that I wasn't sure if I hated or loved yet. "No, I drove. One's enough." "I'll drive us back if you want." We were in a small booth, and Candice had made it a point to sit with Mason, which put Kash and me in a position to get all up close and personal whether we wanted to or not. And now he was leaning in and the smell of his musky cologne was calling my name. "You look like you need more .. | Molly McAdams | ||
| 399a600 | Running my hands down her tear-streaked face, my heart broke when her eyes met mine. She was looking at me, but she wasn't seeing me. There was nothing in those beautiful blue eyes. No pain. No fear. No betrayal. No love. They were empty and were looking right through me. "I'm so sorry, Rach. I'm sorry. We got you, baby. You're safe now." I" | Molly McAdams | ||
| 3e35071 | Look, Blake, I don't think Friday is a good idea." "Why isn't it?" "Well, it's--you know . . . it's just not. So thank you for your offer. But once again, and hopefully for the last time, I'm not going to go on a date with you. If you ever move back to California, I really hope this doesn't make family dinners awkward." The corners of his lips turned up slightly. "All right. You done for the day?" This was the first rejection he'd taken wel.. | Molly McAdams | ||
| 9eeaddb | Rachel . . ." He ran a nervous hand through his hair and paused for a second, as if trying to figure out what to say. "The school year is about to end and you'll be going back to Cali over the summer. I feel like I'm about to miss any chance with you I may have. And I don't want to. I know you liked me when we were growing up. But, Rach, you were way too young back then." "I'm still five years younger; that hasn't changed." He smirked. "You.. | Molly McAdams | ||
| c760efe | Are you still mad?" I glanced up to see his stupid smirk, which I kind of hated right now. "Why would I be mad? I was just dragged out of a building to go walk with a guy I turned down for a date." His smirk turned into a full-blown smile. "Still mad," he said, and looked ahead. "Although I always did find your temper adorable, let me know when you're not." Thirty" | Molly McAdams | ||
| 95fd369 | Uh . . . am I missing something?" Blake looked a little smug as he glanced at his watch, then the sky. "Nope, give it a couple minutes. We got here just in time." Aaron, his sexuality, and the fact that Blake had gotten jealous over my flaming gay friend completely forgotten, I looked at the sky, then pulled out my phone to check the time. There was nothing special about the time from what I could tell. As for the sky, it was nearly dusk, a.. | Molly McAdams | ||
| 3de6f2f | Just as we were passing the school, Blake slid his hand down my arm and intertwined our fingers. "Rachel, why did you finally agree to go out with me?" When I looked up, I was surprised at his somber expression. I would have expected something a little more taunting. "Do you want me to answer that honestly?" "I'd appreciate it. I've asked you out for . . . shit. I don't know, nine months now? No matter what I said, your answer was always no.. | Molly McAdams | ||
| 282a6de | Blake didn't say a word to me as I slid into the passenger seat of his car, and he continued to stay silent as we drove to one of the Starbucks near campus. The only acknowledgment he made of my presence was to put his hand high up on my thigh again and hold tight. Too tight. And not much changed once we were finally in the shop. Conversation didn't happen, his hand was back on my thigh, and we had four different stare-downs. I only won one.. | Molly McAdams | ||
| 567448b | BLAKE: You look beautiful tonight. Instead of bolting for my car like any sane person would have, I looked around until I found him. Well, running to my car wouldn't have helped much; he was parked right next to it and leaning against the driver's door of his shiny little Lexus. How did he know I was here? If he didn't know I was here, what is he doing here at two in the morning? Oh my word, he's been following me! No, that's ridiculous; co.. | Molly McAdams | ||
| 9609b47 | Before I could scream, his free hand slammed down on my throat and his face was directly above mine again. He growled as his blue eyes turned to ice and he just stared at me as I gasped for air. "You're going to regret doing that, sweetheart." My vision blurred from my tears; the outer edges were turning black as I struggled to stay conscious. Blake's breathing deepened and the look that crossed his painfully handsome face terrified me. My .. | Molly McAdams | ||
| ce0b714 | When the door opened, Blake was standing at the side of my bed looking down at me. The light brush of his fingers over my throat and his solid glare were clearly a warning. But I was still on the verge of fainting, now from trying too roughly to inhale. Candice said good-bye to whomever she'd been talking to as she shut the door. "Oh, hey, cuz! I didn't mean to--" Blake turned to look at her and Candice's eyes went wide when she saw me. "Oh.. | Molly McAdams | ||
| 8f4a82a | Those guys didn't hurt you too bad, did they, Rach? They didn't--they didn't . . ." "No. Candice. No. Blake--" "I know, Rach. Blake took such good care of you last night, he was so sweet to you." No! A sob broke free and the tears poured down my cheeks as I tried to tell her how wrong she was. "No. Blake--my car--he . . . he did something and I--I thought I was going crazy!" "It's okay, sweetie. He took me to pick up your Jeep from Starbuck.. | Molly McAdams | ||
| fefdc31 | My head was shaking a no when Candice tried to hand me the phone, and she eventually just shoved it into my palm. I just stood there staring at the front of it in horror. Candice huffed and forced my hand so the phone was pressed to my ear and went to sit back at her desk. "Y-you--" "Took care of you," he said, cutting me off. "I have a witness." "No," I whispered, and glanced up at Candice. "Who's going to believe anything you say, Rachel?.. | Molly McAdams | ||
| 7554fed | does so much and works so well...Apple TV is an amazing first-generation product. | Apple TV | ||
| 44efea3 | I shut my eyes and listened to the remainder of "I'll Be" by Edwin McCain in my car before preparing to get out. My dad used to sing that to my mom when they thought I wasn't looking. He'd pull her close in the kitchen and dance with her slowly as he softly sang each word in her ear. My dad was sweet like that, and I remember thinking I wanted a guy just like him. A rugged-looking softy who would take the time to dance with his wife for no .. | Molly McAdams | ||
| 1266e01 | Von Thunen's abstract principles had strikingly concrete geographical consequences. A series of concentric agricultural zones would form around the town, each of which would support radically different farming activities. Nearest the town would be a zone producing crops so heavy, bulky, or perishable that no farmer living farther away could afford to ship them to market. Orchards, vegetable gardens, and dairies would dominate this first zon.. | William Cronon | ||
| d90ac50 | What farmers could profitably raise at any given location would depend on two key variables: how much people in the city were willing to pay for different crops, and how much it cost to transport those crops to market. | William Cronon | ||
| 524367a | Repeatedly in the nineteenth century, western cities came into being when eastern capital created remote colonies in landscapes that as yet contained relatively few people. Movements of capital helped explain why large cities developed so much more quickly in the West than Turner's evolutionary frontier stages suggest. | William Cronon | ||
| 514ad38 | By what peculiar twist of perception, I wondered, had I managed to see the plowed fields and second-growth forests of southern Wisconsin--a landscape of former prairies now long vanished--as somehow more "natural" than the streets, buildings, and parks of Chicago? All represented drastic human alterations of earlier landscapes." | rural-history urban-history | William Cronon | |
| bf000aa | Resources, waterways, and climatic zones loom so large in their writings that one can almost forget that people have something to do with the building of cities. | environmental-history historiography urban-history | William Cronon | |
| 47a74f7 | T]he people of plenty were a people of waste. | history | William Cronon | |
| 13c1092 | The switch | Sandra Balzo | ||
| 4ab457a | Aurora asked. | Sandra Balzo |