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...Likely story #2: This past Saturday a UC Berkeley student, whipping up school spirit before the big Stanford-Cal game, pens a satirical column in his school paper urging readers to "show your spirit on Chelsea's bloodied carcass" because the First Daughter "embodies the Stanford ethos of establishment worship that must be subverted and destroyed...
They weren't vultures, but the birds at Harvard stadium started circling the carcass of the Penn football team as early as the second quarter. Harvard dominated the proceedings from the opening kick, but it was Glenn Jackson's 67-yard interception return for a touchdown late in the second quarter that seemed to seal the Quakers' fate...
...moved roughly 60 million copies. But Joy earned pride of place as the one indispensable kitchen reference source, and a fail-safe graduation or wedding present besides. It told beginning or uncertain cooks how to, among everything else, set a table, fillet a fish and turn a squirrel carcass into something edible. The 1975 Joy, the edition that the new book will supplant, has still been selling about 100,00 copies a year...
...about U Turn, which John Ridley adapted from his novel Stray Dogs. The movie dwells in the dry heat of Superior, Ariz., a town halfway between Phoenix and Hades. As Bobby Cooper (Sean Penn) speeds through in his '64-and-a-half Mustang convertible, a vulture picks at the carcass of a canine that looks meaner than the bird; even the victims here wear a scowl. That's Bobby: a part-time tennis player, full-time weasel who kicks cats and isn't much nicer to humans...
...powerful first bite usually takes place underwater, and the first sign of an attack is often a blood slick on the surface. Within 20 min., a sea lion or seal pops to the surface with a big chunk taken out of it. Then the shark appears, seizes the carcass and finishes...