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He took the problem back to the local village elders, who explained why the school was being boycotted: the logo chosen was from that part of the village history which described an enemy arriving to rape all the young women of the tribe.
This is a district which only "one Democrat had won since Adolf Hitler was running Germany," announces habitual double-dribbler Mark Shields on both Capital Gang and NewsHour . The Republican elders take more guff from the quotable Shields, who characterizes them on NewsHour as more concerned with "re-election" than the "revolution" they promised three years ago.
Critics also point out that Wolf has defended former Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders, who lost her job in part for advocating similar ideas about masturbation.
The advantage of tailored screens or specific questions for subgroups such as women,41 adolescents,54-59 and elders,60-64 needs to be determined.
Thus, my father's rural family of farmers is thin and wiry, while the elders in my mother's urban clan of higher caste and wealthier stock are as plump as can be.