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Kickbacks and payoffs and carp. They are all part of the Christmas tradition in Czechoslovakia, where the moon-mouthed fish is the centerpiece of holiday feasts. The challenge is to get a fat and tasty one, and that is where the corruption comes in. In Prague hundreds of fish vendors flock to giant carp tanks on the city's outskirts. They bribe the staff to give them big carp instead of small, the truckers to deliver the fish early instead of late and officials to award them prime locations on city streets. By the time the fish are ready...
...Critics carp that Brody can be a joyless nudge. More seriously, they complain that she tends to make oracular pronouncements when scientists are still debating an issue. "If I don't sound positive," responds Brody, "people can readily discount what I say. But I'm ready for change." She used to warn against eating fatty fish. "Now I tell them they can. The evidence has changed. Same goes for olive oil." But most of her colleagues and even doctors heap on only praise. "She has done more than any other journalist to bring accurate information about nutrition and health...
...CARP representative Sean Fenton, a BC sophomore, is heading the efforts to bring the "moonies" to BC. Fenton will meet with BC administrators next week to discuss the creation of a CARP chapter...
...campus leader for the Collegiate Association for the Research of Principals (CARP), an affiliate of the Rev. Sun Myung Moon's Unification Movement, is attempting to form a chapter at Jesuit-run Boston College, according to The Heights, the campus daily...
...handled information at the Divinity School said yes, CARP involves a small group of graduate students there--I think he said three--who are members of Rev. Moon's Unification Church...