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...politician is brave enough to favor such a position - hunters vote. Vassilis Banavas Thessaloniki, Greece You noted that protesters against the hunting ban have pointed out that foxes will still have to be killed as agricultural pests. That is not only appalling, but also downright absurd. Foxes deserve the same protection as the creatures highlighted in TIME's recent cover story "Saving the Big Cats." The big cats too are killed under the pretext of being pests. Matthias Geiger Birchwil, Switzerland
...happy unless Harvard Yard was torn down for community benefit.” Town-gown relations must be a game of give-and-take; such a hard-line stance is horribly unproductive. Just as it would be wholly inappropriate for Harvard development to truck on unfettered, it is absurd to advocate what is tantamount to a freeze on University expansion...
...BEEN CALLED THE BIGGEST BIGOT IN AMERICAN MEDIA. HOW DO YOU RESPOND TO THOSE CHARGES? I don't have any comment about it. It's absurd. You know, ask the kids who have sickle cell that come to the ranch [a New Mexico facility that he built for children who have cancer or blood disorders] whether I'm a bigot or not. Have we made fun of African Americans or Asians or Caucasians? Yeah, sure. But people have to calm down...
...singer shortly after being cast in the movie version of Charles' life. Like anyone else who makes his living in front of an audience, Foxx has an insecure side, but it wages a pitched battle for control of his personality with a confidence that borders on the absurd. "Five hundred years ago," says Foxx, "slaves got a message to a kid named Eric Bishop saying that he's going to change his name to Jamie Foxx and do great things with great people and inspire a generation." Sometimes that pitched battle is very one-sided...
THREE YEARS BEFORE John Fitch began contemplating the absurd--a boat powered by steam, not wind or men with oars--a warring band of Delaware Indians seized his raft, which was heading up the Ohio River with flour for settlers. The Indians scalped two of his companions; Fitch narrowly escaped a tomahawk blow to the head. This was his second brush with death at the hands of the Delaware tribe, whose swift canoes in 1782 often rendered the settlers' plodding rafts easy prey...