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...Illustrated, stated that the muskie's name, muskellunge, derives from Ojibway or perhaps Cree terms meaning "great deformed ugly fish." That's more insulting than it needs to be. The muskie is quite handsome, in its mysterious, prehistoric way. But Johnson was working in the red-in-tooth-and-claw style of hunting-and-fishing prose. The muskie, he wrote, "has the sinister appearance of a stalking submarine." He went on: "There is no other fish like the muskie. It is diabolical in its cunning, maniacal in its rage, unpredictable in its habits. It is the most awesome...
...Cheney watchers now. Democrats started right away to claw through his congressional voting record for proof that he's no kinder, gentler Republican. Meanwhile, the Republican right is trying to decide what it will mean for the party message that Cheney's younger daughter Mary is openly and comfortably gay. But if you know any longtime Westerners, some of Cheney's reserve is not so mysterious. He was born in Lincoln, Neb., and he was just 13 when his father, a U.S. government soil-conservation agent, moved the family to Casper, a Wyoming oil town with sagebrush edges. At Casper...
Think again. A new France is taking shape at the dawn of the 21st century. Like a newborn chick pecking out of its protective shell, the fledgling is only partly visible--a beak here, a claw there--but already it has begun to reveal a dynamic, high-tech nation in which the old state-controlled system will give way to a more decentralized, privatized and entrepreneurial society. Says former Socialist Finance Minister Dominique Strauss-Kahn: "We're becoming a country like any other...
...institutional stability vanishes, one no longer need frolic through WASP theme parks to claw one’s way to the top. Other avenues to power and high society avail themselves. And while identity politics have by no means demolished these hallowed institutions, “diversity” is upon them. Just over a generation ago, Irish Catholics, Jews and blacks were not considered worthy of membership. A woman’s place was, well, in her own club, the Chilton-—not in the den of men, in any event. At Myopia Hunt Club on Boston?...
...credit, Harvard never relented and continued to claw its way back against Maryland...