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...sport athlete in high school in Buffalo, McKendry had her pick of what to play at Harvard. She walked on to the women's hockey team, but decided to trade her skates for cleats. She keeps her stick handling skills sharp with the junior varsity team...

Author: By Rob Cacace, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Senior Trio Plays Together, Lives Together, Leads Together | 3/21/2001 | See Source »

...With her punk hair style, she seems the embodiment of trendy Berlin, a world apart from the farms of rural Germany. The leftist taz newspaper described Künast as "a bigmouth from [Berlin's neighborhood of] Kreuzberg, who can hardly tell a Holstein cow from a Vietnamese water buffalo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: To Greener Pastures | 3/19/2001 | See Source »

...early case illustrating the stupidities of political correctness, a student at the University of Pennsylvania got himself into trouble, charged with racist hate speech, when he shouted out the dorm window at a group of black female students who were making noise late at night: "Shut up, you water buffalo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Word Is Deed | 3/12/2001 | See Source »

...Water buffalo??!! Too bad Byrd did not have the wit to remark on television that "my old mom used to tell me, son, there are white water buffalo and black water buffalo." That would have left a national television audience in a cloud of harmless mystification...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Word Is Deed | 3/12/2001 | See Source »

...Gwich'in tribe fear the worst. Peter lives in Arctic Village, pop. 130, on the southern slopes of the Brooks Range. The caribou come through his area every fall, and the Gwich'in hunt them to feed the whole village. "The caribou for us are like the buffalo were to the Indians of the Lower 48," says Peter. The Gwich'in are worried drilling will drive the caribou away into Canada forever. "Our struggle," says Peter, "is spiritual--about dignity, respect and the ways people relate to each other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Last Wild Place: War Over Arctic Oil | 2/19/2001 | See Source »

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