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...debating forum at just 29 years old - he burnished his reputation with dramatic speeches about the struggles of working-class Americans. (Speeches that Palin herself alluded to earlier this week in an interview with CBS's Katie Couric, joking that she had heard them back when she was in grammar school...
...published in 1996. Heaney was born in County Derry in Northern Ireland, a place which continues to influence his poetry as both a setting and a mental state. Although he grew up on a farm and went to a country primary school, he won a scholarship to a Catholic grammar school in 1951, leaving the farm for good. He began teaching at St. John’s College in Belfast in 1963, where he began publishing poetry. Only one year after publishing his first volume of poetry, his second, “Death of a Naturalist,” received...
...signatures on petitions against the anti-smoking measures. They've found support from faculty and even from nonsmokers. "This law, [the Clean Indoor Air Act], very explicitly defines its terms," Kutztown University geography professor Steven Schnell, a nonsmoker, told Cavanaugh during a campus visit last week. "I suggest a grammar class for your legal counsel...
...people in Congress, 100 Senators and 435 Representatives. Now, [my wife] Gena and I went to the House chamber last year. They were debating a bill. Well, not debating - they were screaming at each other across the aisles. And I'm watching them and thinking, this looks like a grammar school class. Who do we hold accountable in the House of Representatives? If you blame one Congressmen for something, he blames Joe Blow over there. Well, how do we know? Let's reduce it down to one or two Congressmen per state. First of all, we'd save millions...
...dawns on me: the wait staff thinks I'm a local at first. Then I open my mouth, and they think I'm from mainland China, not hearing enough Mandarin to realize no native would speak with such atrocious grammar. It was something my travel guide hadn't prepared me for, that Hong Kongers don't view mainlanders too favorably...