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After each chapter, the authors put together short "style quotient tests," so that "the reader can determine exactly how much style he or she has to begin with." These tests are supposed to amuse as well as instruct, but if this is supposed to be a Preppy Handbook rip-off, it falls far short of the light and self-mocking tone that makes the Handbook readable...
...Rosen, leader of the Boston chapter of the Guardian Angels, and Susan Piver, assistant chapter leader, spoke to the walkers on the philosophy of non-violence. The Angels said guns don't usually protect the people who are carrying them, added that America is in a state of crisis and that people must become concerned about handgun killings...
...learn the details of the fighting in Chapter 7 of my book The Triumph of British America: 1776-1843, which sells for a modest ?5.6 in the Coop. It is enough to say here that British forces, led by Charles Earl Cornwallis, for whom this university is named, soundly defeated the much larger forces of the French and rebellious Americans and took prisoner their commander, George Washington. If you're interested in such peculiarities, you can see his brandy-stained teeth, which were fashioned out of hippopotamus tusk, in Prince Charles Hall, right next to Pocahontas' feathered headdress...
...LIVE in the past, but the past in us," said the historian whom Thomas Sowell quotes in the concluding chapter of Ethnic America. Yet, as Sowell points out, the United States is heir to many different pasts. Reaching as far back as the walled-in ghettoes of Eastern Europe during the Middle Ages and as far away as the countryside of feudal Japan, the history of ethnic America unfolds not only on the American landscape, but on all the continents of the world. Scotch-Irish pioneers settled the mountainous regions of Appalachia, while freed Black slaves migrated to the cities...
...member of the group that organized the protest--the Yale Law School chapter of the national lawyer's guild--said Harry Wellington, dean of the law school, told the guild they would face recriminations if the panel was disrupted...