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Gay cowboys cost $3 million.


Suggesting that students read about two cowboys cowboys, in American history.

1 Tory marauders, adherents to the British cause in the American Revolution, who fought in the contested area of Westchester co., N.Y.
 who fall in love has cost one religious high school in Austin $3 million. St. Andrew's Episcopal School Multiple schools go by the name St. Andrew's Episcopal School:

North America:
  • St. Andrew's Episcopal School (Mississippi) in Jackson, Mississippi
  • St. Andrew's Episcopal School (Maryland) in Potomac, Maryland
  • St.
 in September told Cary McNair, a leading donor, that he could keep a $3 million pledge after he objected to the use of "Brokeback Mountain," a gay love story by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Proulx. The short story, assigned as optional reading in a 12th-grade English class, was part of an "apparent agenda" that was detrimental det·ri·men·tal  
adj.
Causing damage or harm; injurious.



detri·men
 to the school's future and should not be used, McNair said in a letter obtained by the Austin American-Statesman The Austin American-Statesman is the major daily newspaper for Austin, the capital city of Texas. It is an award-winning publication owned by Cox Enterprises and edited by Richard Oppel, who led his previous newspaper, the Charlotte Observer to multiple Pulitzers. .

School policy, however, prohibits all "conditional" gifts, no matter how large, a spokesman said, adding that the story would not be used next year because the English teacher whose students have read the tale for the past five years does not teach literature that has been adapted for film.
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Title Annotation:EDUCATION
Publication:The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)
Article Type:Brief Article
Geographic Code:1USA
Date:Nov 8, 2005
Words:149
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