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  • The trustees of the University of California may deny credit to a course in which Eldridge Cleaver is the chief lecturer, but radical students in many places (including campuses of the University of California) have effectively intimidated professors so they cannot give courses they were prepared to give.

    Student Politics and the University 1969

  • The trustees of the University of California may deny credit to a course in which Eldridge Cleaver is the chief lecturer, but radical students in many places (including campuses of the University of California) have effectively intimidated professors so they cannot give courses they were prepared to give.

    Student Politics and the University 1969

  • And with scum like Devin Nunes sympathizing with them (calling John Lewis a n**ger and Barney Frank a fa**ot, and spitting on Emmanuel Cleaver is a suitable reaction to totalitarianism) and King/Bachmann cheering every step of the way, there is an air of hatered, violence, and uncertainty in Washington.

    Think Progress » Stupak receives death threats after voting for health reform. 2010

  • Looks like a protester who is screaming in Cleaver’s face hits him with spittle as well.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » The Clinton Terror Bill 2010

  • Looks like a protester who is screaming in Cleaver’s face hits him with spittle as well.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » The Clinton Terror Bill 2010

  • John Wayne Cleaver is a deep and complex character, similar to that of Patrick Bateman in American Psycho, who is doing everything he can to seem normal and fit in – unlike that of Bateman – while inside he’s the next Jeffrey Dahmer waiting to happen.

    2010 May 14 « The BookBanter Blog 2010

  • Captain Cleaver aka Daniel James elaborates a terse warcry in this Red Herring piece: game developers clash in a ruthless and bloody 10-year battle for control of the online game industry.

    February 2007 2007

  • But even cold white asses (to paraphrase Cleaver) are subject to class snobberies and stratifications.

    A Twist in Time Wolcott, James 2007

  • Captain Cleaver aka Daniel James elaborates a terse warcry in this Red Herring piece: game developers clash in a ruthless and bloody 10-year battle for control of the online game industry.

    The flogging will continue 2007

  • At the hospital, Tony's lying on a gurney in the hall, near Christopher's body bag -- we see the "Cleaver" hat next to it -- so this may suggest that Tony himself is dead.

    Archive 2007-05-01 Ann Althouse 2007

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