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...Council of State set out some guidelines intended to help Frenchmen decide if they had a nom ridicule-a ridiculous, insulting or otherwise unappealing surname-that they could legally change. In the field of animals, from which a number of French surnames are taken, a Monsieur Duck, Cow, Camel, Ass or Snipe would be allowed to change his name, but a Monsieur Ox, Bull, Goat, Nightingale or Leopard would not. Nouns such as tripe, cheese, cemetery and cuckold, and adjectives like hideous and ugly were frowned on as surnames; but unaccountably, villain and pimp were acceptable. The council also suggested...
...such agent-diplomat is Nick Panella, 39, a graduate of The Bronx, Manhattan's Hunter College, and most of the world's drug trade centers: New York, Rome, Istanbul, Marseille, Montreal and Paris. Dark and compact, Panella describes his appearance as "the stereotype of the Italian wise ass"-a distinct asset in the trade. "Up in East Harlem," he says, "nobody's going to introduce any bright-eyed, 6-ft. Ryan to anybody worth talking to in drugs. But I fit right in. They'll sell to someone who looks like...
...rich farm lands near the Dead Sea, and oases that dotted the desert in the south. An astonishing variety of animals thrived in these regions; archaeologists have unearthed elephant bones in the Jordan Valley, and the prophets wrote knowingly of stealthy bears, the light-footed roe and the wild ass that "snuffed up the wind." But centuries of overgrazing and overcultivation depleted the land. During the reign of the Ottoman Empire, virtually all of Israel's trees were felled to provide fuel for Turkish locomotives. As a result of the depredations, the desert gradually advanced. Many of the original...
...only can antelope bound over the reserve's fences, but predators like steppe wolves-themselves protected animals-find ways into the fenced areas and hunt down the animals. The worst experience came after the purchase from the Iranian government of several pairs of onagri. Ignorant of the wild ass's habits, officials at the reserve soon found that they had too many competitive males in the herd. Fights broke out. The winners tossed their rivals onto their backs and castrated them. Now, led by two surviving males, the herd numbers eleven of the species on which Jesus rode...
...sorry ass...