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...land cases, of course, the Indian Renaissance is rattling one of the uglier skeletons in the open closet of American history. That much land occupied by the Indians was taken by force or fraud is an old, richly documented story. The tale, if sad, is not surprising, given the way of civilization wherever it has encroached on simpler societies. It may be, as many historians argue, that American settlers were driven by an unusual hunger for land. To pioneering Americans, in fact, the right to property was rarely distinguished from the right to liberty. It was the irresistible pursuit...
...wallets--for a good cause of course," he adds. "It was after the M.C. thanked him personally that Sampson suddenly realized that hypnosis could be used for productive ends, beyond entertaining the rich on behalf of charity. "Since then," Sampson adds, "I've put my black cape into the closet...
...plan for the creation of suites in the dormitories calls for connecting a doublesized bedroom to "closet singles" on either side, with all rooms having a door to the corridor...
...finds that Marcie's fortune is derived from sweated labor in Hong Kong, he calls it a day, moves back to Boston, takes over the family enterprises and finds that Oliver III, from whom he had rebelled in Love Story, has been, beneath that stuffed shirt, a closet liberal all along. But have no fear. The revelation is not enough to make Ollie IV happy, and as this fairy story for depressives ends in December 1976, he is as miserable as ever, working hard, jogging along the Charles and still mourning over Jenny. The lover of decent prose...
...been dying to see the skeletons in Harvard's closet, the Museum of Comparitve Zoology has dragged out a few that are 30 feet long and a few hundred million years old and propped them up in a new exhibit dedicated to children and bone lovers everywhere...