Word: caged
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After they are "tapped" for membership, the new Skulls are greeted in a dimly lit, dungeon-esque inner-sanctum by faceless seasoned Skulls in monk's cloaks. Later, as part of the initiation process, two of the pledges are required to enter a cage-like apparatus, which dates back to the 17th century and resembles a medieval torture device, and reveal their deepest, darkest secrets. And as an attempt to settle an irreconcilable dispute between two members there is a duel using archaic pistols. Apparently this is a common method of settling intra-Skulls disputes, since in the movie there...
Senior goalie Keith Cynar was stellar in the cage for the second straight weekend, making 16 saves and allowing only two goals in 47 minutes of play...
Junior Ely Kahn and sophomore Chris Mattieni split the remaining 13 minutes between the pipes. Kahn saw no action around the cage, but Mattieni made only one save while letting up the game's final three goals in the final six minutes...
Cynar, who is returning for his third season between the posts, allowed both goals and had 12 saves on the day before junior Ely Kahn took to the cage with 9:30 left in the fourth period...
...Wise is serious about the work and, the more you think about it, reasonable. His ideas, at any rate, may be evaluated by reading his new book on animal rights, Rattling the Cage (Perseus Books; $25). Jane Goodall, in a foreword, declares it to be "the animals' Magna Carta." It is by turns eloquent, funny and pedantically legalistic--dense with philosophical and legal history, and with the sometimes bizarre case law of humans and animals. Wise explores the legal basis for granting certain common-law protections and rights to certain nonhuman animals--only a few, really, notably the remarkably intelligent...