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Standing alone in a small enclosure, a 21-year-old Asian bull elephant named Billy seems oblivious to the two dozen schoolchildren who press against a chain-link fence to get a closer look. He bobs his massive head up and down and transfers his considerable weight from one side to the other. His trunk unfurls toward the blue plastic cylinder that has been provided for him to play with. Occasionally Billy lumbers over to another part of the yard--his massive gray body, wrinkled skin and billowy, fanlike ears intimidating yet at the same time irresistible. Some...
...want," he says. "Could we reach the point someday where we as a community say, We don't think this is a good species to keep in a zoo environment?" That option is always open. But given the pleasure zoos provide--especially for those kids pressed up against the chain-link fence--it's not one to be taken lightly...
...reporter, who is feverishly taking down notes and has forgotten to show ID, suspiciously. “He’s with me,” the officer says with a chuckle. 8:53 p.m.: Wielding a flashlight, Fumicello creeps into a darkened alley alongside Claverly Hall. A chain-link fence surrounds the construction site of the old Hasty Pudding theatre. Ominous shadows shroud a grimy, uneven pathway. The graffiti that adorns a sullied white wall reads: “rock bottom.” Indeed. 9:21 p.m.: A preppily-dressed student scales Lowell House’s gates...
...past few seasons, fashion--even in this creative capital--has become an extravagantly commercial endeavor. Every-where you look there are $1,200 handbags with exotic gewgaws like padlocks or python patches or chain-link straps. There's nothing wrong with success, of course, but people can stay excited about handbags for only so long. Every now and then, designers need to send shock waves through the fashion system, if only just to keep its heart racing. And in Paris the real designers did just that...
Students no longer stroll along the much-traversed sidewalk between Thayer Hall and Memorial Church, now closed off from traffic by tall, mesh-covered chain-link fences. The walkway is just one of the parts in and around Harvard Yard that has fallen victim to summer construction...