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  Encyclopedia: Grant Hill (politician)
Grant Hill, #33 of the Orlando Magic, goes for a layup during an NBA game.
Hill has resumed his medical practice in Okotoks, Alberta.
Grant Hill is a Canadian Member of Parliament for the Conservative Party of Canada.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Grant-Hill-(politician)   (1683 words)

  
 Grant Hill (politician) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Honourable Dr. Grant Hill, PC, MD (born September 20, 1943) was a Canadian Member of Parliament for the Conservative Party of Canada (2004), and a former member of the Canadian Alliance (2000-2004) and the Reform Party of Canada (1993-2000).
Hill was first elected as an Member of Parliament (MP) for the Reform Party of Canada in the 1993 general election.
Hill did not run in the 2004 election.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Grant_Hill_(politician)   (311 words)

  
 Journal of San Diego History
Grant had actually told a friend that he was thoroughly in love with San Diego and confident of its future greatness.
Grant would surely be pleased to know that his father's portrait still hangs in the lobby and that the hotel was listed in 1979 on the National Register of Historic Sites.
Although he was not in truth a politician, he did attend two national conventions (1896 and 1900) as a delegate from California and appeared twice as an elector at large (1904 and 1908).
www.sandiegohistory.org /journal/81winter/grant.htm   (4426 words)

  
 Eighteen Days and Five Battles: The Vicksburg Campaign
Grant was literally "bogged down" in the bayous with the Rebels on the high ground.
Grant soon realised that the key to the campaign would be the use of amphibious warfare.
Grant had accomplished his mission: Pemberton was trapped in Vicksburg, Sherman occupied the bluffs at the mouth of the Yazoo and communications were restored with the North.
www.americancivilwar.org.uk /meet_reps/meet_anniv_5.htm   (838 words)

  
 Grant Hill - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Grant Hill is the name of both an American athlete and a Canadian politician.
Grant Hill (basketball player) - NBA basketball player
Grant Hill (politician) - former Conservative MP in the Canadian House of Commons.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Grant_Hill   (106 words)

  
 Bernie Grant --  Encyclopædia Britannica
Playing the position of forward for the Detroit Pistons in the National Basketball Association (NBA) and wearing number 33, Grant Hill was a member of the ”Dream Team,” the basketball team that represented the U.S. in the 1996 Summer Olympics.
Grant, Ulysses S. From humble beginnings, Ulysses S. Grant rose to command all the Federal armies in the Civil War and lead them to victory.
The nation's new prosperity in the so-called Gilded Age made the pursuit of luxuries and lavish displays of wealth acceptable, and she spent accordingly on official entertaining, furnishings for the...
www.britannica.com /eb/article-9399777   (839 words)

  
 Perceptions: HILL GRANT   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Complaint against doctors [three Toronto physicians who work with AIDS patients have complaint filed against them with Ontario College of Physicians and Surgeons by an Edmonton lawyer for statements made against fellow physician and Reform Party politician, Grant Hill, who has made anti-gay comments].
More Alliance homophobia [Grant Hill, an Alliance MP, physician, and critic of gay issues, has been attacked for circulating e-mail about gay men and illness rates; comments of EGALE representative; mention that most studies show increased health problems are a result of everyday homophobia and heterosexism that gays and lesbians must live with; etc.].
In the running [newsnote that Grant Hill, Alliance Party politician and medical doctor, who is opposed to gay/lesbian equality, calling it unhealthy, says he will run for leadership of the Alliance Party; "Hill claims he doesn't have anything against gays and lesbians"; etc.].
library.usask.ca /spcoll/srsd/journals/perceptions/1122.html   (158 words)

  
 Ebony: 10 Hottest Couples - African American celebrities   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
He calls his new love "one of the sweetest" women he has ever known and says she is "without games and always willing to listen and learn." Busier than ever, White celebrates 40 years in show business this year and is negotiating for a movie of his life and planning a millennium world tour.
Grant told the Detroit Free Press, "I kind of knew that this was the one.
With the phenomenal success of Hill's solo debut, The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, it's not surprising that hip-hop's reigning diva and her soul mate and fiance Rohan Marley haven't had time to stroll down that aisle.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1077/is_4_55/ai_59110870   (1399 words)

  
 Tobacco wars   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
For all their high-flown rhetoric, successful politicians are pragmatists: they decide the direction they wish to head, then carefully inch forward.
Grant Hill, the Reform Party's health critic, says that the tax rollback and court decision combined to create a "fl hole" for Canada's antitobacco campaign.
Hill is not the only parliamentarian appalled by these trends.
www.tobaccolaw.org /documents/english/literature/TobaccoWars.htm   (2453 words)

  
 Grant --  Encyclopædia Britannica
The wide northern section of Grant county lies for the most part in the Datil section of the Colorado Plateaus, an area including the Mogollon, Mule, Mimbres, and Black Range mountains.
The site of a skirmish between Navajo and Comanche Indians in the early 19th century, the town was established in 1881 when the Grant brothers, contractors building the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, located a construction camp at what became known as Grants Station.
Grant, Ulysses S. general, commander of the Union armies during the late years (1864–65) of the American Civil War, and 18th president of the United States (1869–77).
www.britannica.com /eb/article-9001701   (805 words)

  
 Hill - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For other uses, see The Hill (disambiguation) and Hill (disambiguation).
A hill in Hungary with a hillside vintage garden
Many hills are taller than 600 metres, but most are generally small.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hills   (65 words)

  
 CBC News:Speech from the throne gets poor marks from opposition   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
OTTAWA - Opposition politicians punched away Tuesday at Prime Minister Paul Martin's first speech from the throne, hoping to put a few dents in the Liberals' high standing in the polls just a few months before an expected election.
Speaking in the House of Commons, Conservative Leader Grant Hill called Martin's legislative agenda nothing but "legacy leftovers and puffy promises, in fact the stuff of Cottonelle ads."
Hill invoked the memory of the Red Book, the list of Liberal promises that helped sweep Jean Chrétien to victory in 1993.
www.cbc.ca /stories/2004/02/03/opposition_react040203   (805 words)

  
 CNNSI.com - Fantasy Central - Basketball - Off the Glass: Don't hit the panic button - Monday November 06, 2000 ...
When Jerry Stackhouse puts up 26 points a night in the first week, or when Baron Davis throws around five assists and kicks in almost 17 points per over Charlotte's first four games, the odds appear good that those players will exceed their draft-day values throughout the course of the season.
By the same measure, Grant Hill owners might want to prepare for a precipitous decline in Hill's scoring.
So, playing the good politician (which translates into promising something for everyone), OTG endorses a little of both plans.
sportsillustrated.cnn.com /fantasy/basketball/news/2000/11/06/off_glass   (720 words)

  
 Committee to Examine Illegal Drugs
That is one of the reasons politicians in Canada are so reluctant to talk about drugs, as we are doing here today for the first time in decades.
He took the view that politicians were the ones to blame over the years for not seizing the initiatives on this issue at the beginning of the 1970s.
I did not get to see what was happening on the street and why things were breaking down, but I think that there has been a reluctance on the part of politicians to address the issue and a reluctance in society generally to deal with the problem.
www.cfdp.ca /hcmay01.htm   (22332 words)

  
 ST. LOUIS PUBLIC LIBRARY: PREMIER LIBRARY SOURCES
In Green and Berry's subdivision of 1891, it commemorates Ulysses S. Grant (1822-1885), a Union Army commander in the Civil War and eighteenth president of the United States.
Gratiot's farm southwest of St. Louis was the largest Spanish land grant made in the area.
Originated in the St. Louis Hills Estates Number One in 1944 and named for the town of Guilford, Connecticut, settled in 1639.
www.slpl.lib.mo.us /libsrc/g-street.htm   (2412 words)

  
 UNC-TV ONLINE: Black Issues Forum:Transcripts   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Our profile of achievement tonight is Balaal Salaam, a budding politician, actor, and scholar, who's goal is to go on to college.
I think that politics are very strong, and I think that I could pursue a career being a politician, but I don't know exactly what that entails.
Join us again next week as we focus on concerns of the housekeeping staff at UNC-Chapel Hill, and how it may impact other low wage workers in our state.
www.unctv.org /bif/transcripts/1997/bif1204.html   (2730 words)

  
 Trudeaupia
A subsequent request by the Nazis for free transit to facilitate the occupation of their neighbour Norway was granted.
You see, whenever a visiting head of state comes to Ottawa the route to Parliament Hill is decked out with alternating Canadian flags and the flag of the visiting country.
I don’t know if they immediately imprisoned the poor folks who had their guns stolen like the unfortunate rancher in Grant Hill’s community, but we do know they immediately released the eventual murderer.
trudeaupia.blogspot.com /2004_03_01_trudeaupia_archive.html   (11230 words)

  
 No BMD, eh?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
What Ibbitson doesn't acknowledge, however, is that he himself is about the business of 'manufacturing differences' between his target audience and an 'anti-American' straw man opposed to BMD and some other plans of the US administration.
Canada is no more a 'nation of naggers' than the USA is, say, a 'nation of warmongers.' All such generalizations, offered us by the pundits and politicians who keenly manufacture difference, should be met with the scorn they deserve.
To use Ibbitson's own term, huge 'differences' often separate what ordinary citizens on both sides of the border want for themselves and their neighbours, from what their respective elites and (cough) media mouthpieces say they should want.
nobmdeh.blogspot.com   (3899 words)

  
 Canadian Alliance Appalled at Assault Against its Youth Members (by 'peace' activists)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Grant Hill, MP Deputy Leader of the Official Opposition
OKOTOKS - Dr. Grant Hill, Deputy Leader of the Canadian Alliance, expressed disbelief and outrage at today's physical attack at York University against members of the Canadian Alliance.
Stockwell Day was HORRIBLE on the campaign trail, Joe Clark was (and still is) an arrogant SOB who would rather be leader of the 5th party than let go of power for the good of the nation and the media went out of it's way to demonize the CA.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/857781/posts   (1639 words)

  
 CBC News: Day, Harper preview leadership race   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Day stepped down as party leader last week and is expected to announce his intention to run after the holidays.
Two other official contenders, MPs Diane Ablonczy and Grant Hill were invited to the meeting but could not attend.
Both Day and Harper shook hands and chatted to the the party faithful in Preston Manning's riding of Calgary Southwest.
www.cbc.ca /cgi-bin/templates/view.cgi?/news/2001/12/20/ca_meet011220   (368 words)

  
 MDO - News - 02/27/1998
Student workers have noticed that in the two-foot-wide wooden cubicle currently occupied by senior Sam Jacobson, a bottle or can of Sprite is almost always present when they clean the locker room after practice.
The University's supplemental budget request and changes to the Board of Regents selection process passed the state House Thursday, clearing another hurdle toward final legislative passage.
The former state politician pressed the issue in a speech about environmental law on Thursday.
www.mndaily.com /daily/1998/02/27/news   (458 words)

  
 Not All Dogs
Granted, no one would be mistaking them for Tupac or Snoop Dogg, but they’d come a long way.
Winburn’s alleged actions were far from heinous; in fact they sounded like the bargaining of a natural politician, if that was a good thing.
Truth was, Jerry looked a hell of a lot like one of those sneering, inbred white boys who at his private grade school… the ones who had rained racial epithets on him until he had flexed a few muscles and sent them scurrying into their dark corners like sprayed roaches.
authors.aalbc.com /notall.htm   (14594 words)

  
 CURT SMITH :: TROUBLE MAN   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The sun has set on the Berry Farms projects in Anacostia, the historic and infamous sliver of Washington, DC, just across the river from Capitol Hill.
Most of the shorties have gone to bed, while the sound of sirens indicate most of the hustlers have just gone to work.
He was a year-round baller through high school, playing AAU ball for a team called Slam N Jam alongside the likes of Grant Hill and George Lynch, summer ball at the Urban Coalition and Kenner League tournaments and in the winter for Coolidge High.
www.slamonline.com /magazine/features/CSmith64   (1586 words)

  
 Sun.Star Cebu - Sayson: Tough choice   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Since the NBA first gave the ROY to Don Meineke in the 1952-53 season, there have been three occasions when two players shared the coveted honor.
Dave Cowens of Boston and Geoff Petrie of Portland did it in ’70-71, Grant Hill and Jason Kidd in ’94-95, and Elton Brand and Steve Francis in ’99-2000.
He always flashes that Michael Jordan smile, so at peace before the television camera, answering questions like a seasoned politician.
sunstar.com.ph /static/ceb/2004/04/12/sports/sayson.tough.choice.html   (680 words)

  
 Black Entertainment | Black News | Urban News | Hip Hop News - EURWEB.com
Benet hopped off the stage sans bodyguards, dancing in the crowd with the groping-happy women who’d come center stage to party as he performed “Where Does the Love Go.” Like a politician, Benet was making his constituents happy.
He closed with his latest single, “I Wanne Be Loved,” before exiting the stage to a thunderous applause.
Scene Spotting: LaToya Jackson and O.J. Simpson dining separately at Trader Vic’s at The Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, Calif…Soon-to-be divorced Eddie Murphy at the Maxim magazine party in Los Angeles with actress Robin Givens.
eurweb.com /story.cfm?id=22077   (1784 words)

  
 Off the Pine
He was the first major politician to realize the futility of negotiating with an autocratic Palestinian partner.
6) Magic: Hill comes back, OR they get something out their big men
13) Heat: Discover a big man other than Grant who can play, Caron Butler really is the next Paul Pierce.
offthepine.blogspot.com   (4803 words)

  
 Ryan Smith's Page on 1UP.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
He's getting to be like the poor man's Grant Hill
All she does is try on different hairstyles and clothes, paces around rooms, and pouts.
Can you imagine Hilary Clinton secretly sharing embraces with Bill in the shadows of Capitol Hill.
people.1up.com /do/my1Up?publicUserId=5552290   (3780 words)

  
 Mark Byron
Keeping those needs to yourself in a hyper-secretive take on that verse could be counter productive.
However, outside of that burden-bearing, making a show of prayer is sinful; politicians who show up at the big pubic prayer breakfasts, yet never darken the door of their church for an intercessory prayer session come to mind.
January 10, 2006 at 06:52 AM in Edifier du Jour
markbyron.typepad.com   (7361 words)

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