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    I know what it's like to be bullied. During the first couple of years of high school, I got a bit of bother... Because my nose sort of slants up a little bit lads at school would call me a 'Pig' and oink at me.

    At the college level, I don't think he's anywhere near his potential. He has the big frame and once he gets on a heavy weight program and can focus on throwing ... his feet are getting quicker and I look for him to take off. His big years are ahead of him.


    We leave the security of the airport up to the Aviation Department and the Transportation Security Administration. We have full faith in their abilities and the job they do. In a situation of this type, we hope this will be used as a learning opportunity for the future.



    Racially balanced isn't the term that our board uses but it does have a policy that clearly states that when we do a redistricting we should not affect the diversity of a school any more than is necessary when drawing a line.

    Our schools should get five years to get back to where they were in 1963. If they're still bad maybe we should declare educational bankruptcy, give the people their money and let them educate themselves and start their own schools.

    This meet was held in super-humid conditions. But the thing I liked most was our times improved. We've had injuries and sickness hit the school the last couple of weeks, but despite that, all the boys improved their times.

    We really opened up for the film of King George, but then the places where its characters lived and worked cried out to be opened up. The world of this story is the school, so the big decision we took was not to twist ourselves in knots trying to give it a false sense of scale. Closed worlds like schools, army bases, prisons or hospitals are fantastic, because they stand as a microcosm for a bigger world.

    The reason we are making the request is because of the rich cultural heritage concerning the integration of our school. We were the first-ever school to integrate below the Mason-Dixon line, and we want to honor our school's and our community's heritage.

    Sometimes it's a little challenging to understand what was on the minds of some of the players. Between the two state schools, there's been a lot of positive things going on with the football programs here. I have to wonder, why players would have to look so far elsewhere to find what they're looking for

    This place is the Devil, or at least his principal residence, they call it the University, but any other appellation would have suited it much better, for study is the last pursuit of the society the Master eats, drinks, and sleeps, the Fellows drink, dispute and pun, the employments of the undergraduates you will probably conjecture without my description.

    Picture the prince, such as most of them are today a man ignorant of the law, well-nigh an enemy to his people's advantage, while intent on his personal convenience, a dedicated voluptuary, a hater of learning, freedom and truth, without a thought for the interests of his country, and measuring everything in terms of his own profit and desires.


    I had no books at home. I started to frequent a public library in Lisbon. It was there, with no help except curiosity and the will to learn, that my taste for reading developed and was refined.


    We are pretty excited about the Black Pine study. We have seen a steady decrease in deer numbers in the area. While mule deer numbers to the west and east have increased over the past few years, the Black Pine mule deer herd has remained stable or declined.

    And for this self-described Mr. Underdog, ... Never give up. Anything is possible with desire and ambition, and for God's sake, I even graduated college. Once you put your mind to something, just stick to it and surround yourself with some great people, and no matter what happens, you're always a winner.

    The Falcon Press was already in existence when I came to Florence four years ago. I wanted to revive the program and see if we couldn't make it into something really special. We added the area in the hall near the book rack where students can sit for a few minutes and read, and above that one of our parents has painted a falcon, which is the school's mascot, with a book in its mouth. We added spotlights before school started this year so we could spotlight our authors.

    We were kids still in school and playing 24 hours. We would get off school and then go do our homework in the bar right across the street and then play there until one or two in the morning and then grab a few hours' sleep before we went to school. Then the same thing repeated, man, over and over.


    I love the music, I love the times, so to me that was exciting personally just to play something that starts in 1986 with graduating high school, we've got a great soundtrack in the pilot.


    I started cooking in college to get girls, ... I was pathetic. Girls didn't want to go out with me. But I found that if I offered to cook for a girl, there was more of a chance that she'd say yes.




    You have to look at where he came from, undrafted, unlooked at, nobody really knew who he was. That's a very humbling experience, but I think he appreciates the opportunities he has because he didn't have them in college.



    I would be devastated if my son could not have music as part of his curriculum in school. It should not be a choice between culture and technical training - well-rounded students and graduates will make appropriate choices for their careers, but they must also be trained to make appropriate social choices.


    I never expected to go to college. Nobody in my high school went to college. We had half-pound rations of meat and of cooking oil. Matches were rationed. Toilet paper was rationed.

    I would imagine that men are caught between two issues. The rising cost of everything, houses, child care, private school. They need more money to provide for their families but they are caught trying to weigh the balance.

    Over the years, we have had our meetings and shows at different locations. We used to meet at the Jack Tar Hotel, and several of the local schools. Now, we hold our meetings at the National Guard Armory in Orange the second Thursday of every month at 7 p.m.


    It was mandatory in college that we had to wear a suit. I think it's kind of funny now we get the opportunity to make millions and millions of dollars and we're required to wear suits. Well, we were required to wear them in college when we made nothing.


    I truly believe that was one of the great things that helped the University of Miami program achieve a lot of the things that they did - the enormous national exposure.


    I am willing to accept thoughts I read when I have had similar ones myself. I am more willing to accept my own thoughts than those I read. Yet, having a new thought is not an action intended in advance we don't set ourselves to have that specific new thought. If our own thoughts just 'come to us' unbidden, why should we be less receptive to ones that come through reading Perhaps because we spontaneously have only those thoughts to which we are already receptive. This may lead me to miss out on learning from those who can teach me most, those who think in a way completely different from mine. Unfortunately however, my trust in them cannot grow in the way described, so I continue to read them from an adversary stance.

    College students around the world are telling us how much they love Absolute Poker's free 'Win Your Tuition' tournament. For no money down, these up-and-coming poker players can experience the excitement of participating in a global, interactive event, which is now bigger than the World Series of Poker (WSOP), for a shot at winning the grand prize of one semester's tuition and other awesome prizes.





    The one thing I said to some people in the university at times when they asked me about the future was, 'Look, everybody just stay stable. We will be OK. I have a bunch of great (coaches) around me. We have to go out and recruit a couple of kids and we will be OK,' ... I'm not sure they believed me, but at least they didn't fire me.

    They're looking for teachers who are creative and inspire children to want to learn. So the parent or the community member, whoever nominated had to be thinking along those lines.

    One of the best ways of enslaving a people is to keep them from education... The second way of enslaving a people is to suppress the sources of information, not only by burning books but by controlling all the other ways in which ideas are transmitted.



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