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...example, it is inefficient to produce pork in desert areas like the Middle East because pigs thrive best on the same scarce fruits and grains that nourish man, whereas cud-chewing animals (cattle, sheep, goats) develop on high-cellulose brush plants that are hard for man to digest. The meat from pigs was thus considered not only bad to eat but "bad to think," hence the prohibition of eating the flesh of pigs, which were said to be dirty. According to Harris, pigs become dirty only when left untended, and so they get a bum rap. A pig prefers...
...officials of the Soviet government must be forced to answer when they come to places like Harvard. The list of ongoing wrongs for which the Soviet regime must be held accountable goes on and on; Afghanistan's million-plus dead only top the list. And Arbatov was allowed to brush it all aside last week in the name of "relevance...
...RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE" usually implies an epiphany of sorts, an experience profound and electric. At least so it was in the pastoral world before the Church and Billy Graham fused with MTV, but a modern, urban brush with religion--or rather, its proselytes--can be a queasy, exploitive experience. Twice this semester I've been spiritually solicited, and the encounters have left me feeling cynical and defensive...
...blessing or, in one case, attempting to blow him up. At the same time that the Pope is visiting, Movie Director Billy Einhorn passes through his old neighborhood, and most of the Pope watchers also try to solicit Einhorn's attention; for these hungering egos, any notice, any brush with glory, will do. The upshot is at least four deaths, three shattered romances, one imprisonment, one resignation from a convent and the needless scorching of two Brillo pads...
...groom. Suddenly widowed, Cornelia Hayward elected this hard and unfamiliar work out of a vague affection for horses, picked up during her girlhood in Saratoga Springs. But mostly it was a way of keeping Katrina with her all the time: they rose together at 4 and went off to brush the horses...