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<H1 ALIGN="CENTER">View From The Red-Tailed's Nest</H1>
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<P ALIGN="CENTER"><EM><STRONG>Reality is for those who lack imagination.-- From a fortune cookie</STRONG></EM></P>
<P><STRONG>This is the non-frame version of my home-page.</STRONG></P>
<P>Hello and Welcome to my little nook over-looking the Web!</P>
<P><IMG SRC="me.jpg" WIDTH=64 HEIGHT=83 ALIGN="LEFT" ALT="[Image: My College I.D. Photo.]"> I am Anne Michelle Forbes, a native of <A
HREF="http://www.state.mn.us/explore/index.html">Minnesota</A>.
I am also a recent graduate of <A HREF="http://www.carleton.edu/">Carleton College</A> in
<A HREF="http://www.northfield.org/">Northfield</A>, Minnesota, with a Bachelor of Arts degree in <A HREF="http://www.carleton.edu/curricular/SOAN/index.html">
Sociology and Anthropology</A>.</P>
<H2 ALIGN="CENTER">Twigs of the Nest:</H2>
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<LI><A HREF="#hawk">About Red-Tailed Hawks</A>
<LI><A HREF="#interests">Anne's Interests</A>
<LI><A HREF="#carleton">Carleton, My Alma Mater</A>
<LI><A HREF="devilbunnies/northfield.html">The Northfield Alt.DevilBunnies Homepage</A>
<LI><A HREF="devilbunnies/infurno.html">The Infurno™</A>: A <s>tail</s> tale from Alt.DevilBunnies, starring the Infamous General LonGears!
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<H2 ALIGN="CENTER">About Red-Tailed Hawks</H2>
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<P>Some of you had asked me why I was fascinated with red-tailed hawks. Well, when I think of family-- especially my mother's side of it-- one of the symbols I associate with it are red-tailed hawks. This is because my mother's oldest brother, Robert Burington, keeps Meg, who at 23 years of age is the oldest surviving red-tailed hawk on record.</P>
<P>If you are fascinated by these pictures, you can learn more about red-taileds right <A HREF="http://bizweb.lightspeed.net/calm/rthawk.htm">here
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<H2 ALIGN="CENTER">Anne's Interests</H2>
<P>I'm a member of the Minnesota Democratic Farmer-Laborer Party, which is the local version of the <A HREF="http://www.democrats.org">The United States Democratic Party</A>. One DFL-er I'm proud to have helped re-elect in 1996 is <A HREF="http://www.senate.gov/member/mn/wellstone/general/">
Senator Paul Wellstone</A>, Carleton College's best-known Professor of Political Science. My hobbies are beading, reading science-fiction, collecting Batman comic books, and fighting the cute but evil <A HREF="devilbunnies/northfield.html">devilbunnies</A>. I recently wrote my senior thesis on <EM>Usenet and the Social Contract</EM>, which I will HTML-ize when I have the time. I'm also interested in the <A HREF="http://www.pioneerplanet.com/entertainment/bulletinboard/">
Saint Paul Pioneer Press Bulletin Board</A>, <A HREF="http://members.aol.com/atlasgames/onte/onte_index.html">
On The Edge</A>-- a collectible card game by Carleton College's own John Nephew, and The Quest For Glory series computer games. I own (or does he own me?) a <A HREF="http://www.cockatiels.org/">cockatiel</A> named Clyde. I am also rarely without a <A HREF="http://www.bettas.org/">betta</A>, better known as Siamese Fighting Fish.</P>
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<H2 ALIGN="CENTER">Carleton, My Alma Mater</H2>
<P ALIGN="CENTER"><STRONG><EM>O, Carleton, our Alma Mater
<BR>We hail the maize and blue;
<BR>Thy name is ever dearest,
<BR>Thy children ever true.</P>
<P ALIGN="CENTER">O, Carleton, our Alma Mater,
<BR>To thee we sing our praise;
<BR>For thee we fight,
<BR>To thee we pledge,
<BR>The strength of all our days.</EM></STRONG></P>
<P>The Alma Mater does sound a bit corny and old-fashioned, I will admit, but it still rings as true today as it did when it was first written. For those of you who have not had the pleasure and priviledge of knowing her, Carleton College is a very special place. And no, I'm not just saying this because I attended this Northfield, Minnesota, college. Nor am I saying this as a former student employee in the College Admissions Office. I am saying this as someone who was profoundly changed by living as a student in the Carleton community.</P>
<P>During that time, I gained a great deal of self-confidence in myself, proficiency in Spanish, knowledge of the world and the cultures that compose it, a love of the Internet and the social connections it fosters, and the best friends I have ever had. I also had one-on-one relationships with my professors, long conversations with fascinating people like <A HREF="http://www.lookup.com/Homepages/92314/a0205.html">Donald Johanson</A>, and many adventures-- including a Summer, 1996 internship in Washington, DC-- that would not have been possible had I not attended Carleton.</P>
<P>As I have time to write, I will tell you more about my experience with Carleton. In the meantime, if you to wish to learn more about <A HREF="http://www.carleton.edu/">Carleton</A> and why it is so special, why not ask people who have a connection to it:</P>
<P><A HREF="http://public.carleton.edu/~cherrye/">Elizabeth Cherry</A>, <A HREF="http://gw.ddb.com/pddb">Pamela Dean Dyer-Bennet</A>, <A HREF="http://www.inlink.com/~epsteins/">Beth Epstein</A>, <A HREF="http://www.wnye.nycenet.edu/tv/descrips/KRAT.HTM">Chris Kratt</A>, <A HREF="http://www.uvm.edu/~jloewen/bio.html">James Loewen</A>, <A HREF="http://public.carleton.edu/~neroden/home.htmlx">Nathanael Nerode</A>, <A HREF="http://public.carleton.edu/~overholw/">Warren Overholt</A>, <A HREF="http://public.carleton.edu/~mschardi/">Michael Scharding</A>, <A HREF="http://members.aol.com/atlasgames/">John Nephew</A>, <A HREF="http://msnbc.com/NEWS/116846.asp">Garrick Utley</A>, <A HREF="http://www.northfield.org/info/veblen.htm">Thorstein Veblen</A>, <A HREF="http://public.carleton.edu/~weissj/">John Weiss</A>, and <A HREF="http://www.carleton.edu/student/">current students</A>.</P>
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<P>This page was last mutated July 25, 1998.</P>
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