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...been eaten for millennia, but it fell deeply out of fashion shortly after Captain Arthur Phillip sailed ashore in 1788 with six cows, 29 sheep and 717 English convicts to form the first British colony in New South Wales. Non-native herd animals replaced the nomadic Skippy as the continent's meat source of choice. Australia began exporting kangaroo in 1959, and many an Aussie dog has feasted on it for decades. But it wasn't until the 1990s that most Australian states legalized the domestic sale of kangaroo as people food. John Kelly, executive director of the Kangaroo Industry...
...couple of big blows when it lost then-sophomore Eric Eadington after two starts and highly-touted prospect Greg Malley never made it to the mound at all.Still, with established senior starters Shawn Haviland ’08 and Brad Unger ’08 headlining the rotation, former captain Matt Vance ’08 leading an experienced lineup, and a number of talented freshmen plugging in whatever holes remained, the Crimson should have been able to put together a respectable season, or a mediocre one at the very least.But Harvard seemed to lose its drive somewhere...
...because it had escaped the interest of even my fellow sports fanatics. I had never seen a wrestling match (my high school didn’t have a team), and thus pored through the NCAA rulebook for help, too afraid to ask the athletes about the basics (junior co-captain Louis Caputo may be a gentle soul, but a meeting in person makes it painfully obvious that he could kill you with his bare hands...
...most noticeable flaws and the Crimson (13-28, 10-10 Ivy) overcame an early 7-0 deficit to eventually topple the Huskies (22-16, 8-7 CAA) by a score of 16-13.“The game was pretty typical of our season,” Harvard captain Harry Douglas said. “It turned into a slugfest. But that’s the way we’ve been all year, coming back from behind.”The Crimson had been doomed by the “big inning” throughout the season, and when...
...member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Specter once called witnesses like former adult film star Linda Lovelace, children's television show host Captain Kangaroo, and several jurors from the John Hinckley Jr. trial to illustrate his points on juvenile justice. Senator Paul Simon once publicly chided Specter for the gimmicks...