Oklahoma lawmaker declines gifts amid ethics scrutiny
A 26 year old Oklahoma state representative Cleta Deatherage from Norman refused lobbyist gifts including a satchel engraved with her name and season tickets, citing the state constitution bans accepting anything of value. Her stance sparks debate among colleagues about ethics and influence in politics.
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Cleta Deatherage
Norman
Okla
Oklahoma
Oklahoma State House
University of Oklahoma
Deathcrage
Man and animal rights debate stirred by dolphin release
The piece cites two former research assistants who freed two Atlantic bottlenose dolphins from Hawaii and argues against human domination of wildlife. It weighs animal rights, habitat protection, and ecological interdependence, urging caution about human freedoms that harm ecosystems.
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University of Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology
The
Gazette
Wordplay and language quirks from a New York Times Syndicate feature
The piece explores misplacements and wordplay examples from a humor column. It discusses Decapitation games, sexism in language, and idiom choices with playful quizzes and reader anecdotes. It notes how punctuation can mislead and offers sample word transformations with answers.
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