Word: butcher
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...look to the chalkboard at the far end of the sushi bar that lists the daily specials: young yellowtail tuna, mozuku seaweed, minke whale. The words for whale hang there in much the same way that a pig head stares back at you from the window of a Chinatown butcher shop...
...eating whale different from eating pigs or cows?' KEIJI FUJINO, a whale-meat butcher in the Japanese port of Shimonoseki, where Japan's largest whaling expedition in decades set sail...
...puff on a narghile. One recent Friday, a procession of black-coated ultra-Orthodox Jews hurrying through Damascus Gate toward the Western Wall ran into a crowd of prayer-going Arabs. They all stopped to gape at a large, dead shark hanging from a hook outside a butcher's shop. It was one of those fleeting moments when Arabs and Jews forgot their differences and stared in awe at one of God's truly scary creatures. But it doesn't take much--a stabbing in the Old City, a riot or an explosion--for the lines of this invisible grid...
KEIJI FUJINO, a whale-meat butcher in the Japanese port of Shimonoseki, where Japan's largest whaling expedition in decades set sail...
Kinsley implied that libertarians emphasize the individual over society. I am a libertarian, and I am totally dependent on a smoothly functioning society. I need bread from the baker, meat from the butcher and a network of family and friends for support and fellowship. All of this occurs spontaneously, without government managing it. Yes, a limited government is needed to defend liberty and property, but this only creates the framework in which free people create society. Kinsley equates government with society, and this is what separates statists from libertarians. Mark Gibb, LEAGUE CITY, TEXAS...