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...video monitor, two small marmosets - tree-dwelling South American monkeys with white ear tufts - cling tightly to each other, looking terrified. A third writhes in pain, postsurgery, on the floor of its cage; others have raw and bloody head wounds that seem crudely stitched up. The animals appear in a 21-minute exposé called Cutting Edge, shot for the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection (BUAV) in one of Cambridge University's neuroscience research labs. The monkeys' brains had been deliberately damaged in experiments meant to simulate the symptoms of stroke and Parkinson's disease. Important research that...
Unfortunately for those who cling to decorum even in their most inebriated moments, some actions just don’t have a place in the code of manners. “Throwing up in someone’s car or on your neighbor—it’s probably impossible to do that politely,” Ms. Mannersmith maintains, recounting the story of one prominent Yalie’s vomit-related faux pas. Ms. Mannersmith’s final judgment on Bush Sr.’s throwing up on a Japanese dignitary while on tour in Japan...
...frequent cries and pleas of women prisoners that get lost in the echo of the cold walls convert this place into a Dantesque inferno that I have tolerated only by the mercy and grace of God. The more they torture me, the more I seek God, the more I cling to the feet of Christ, who is the Way, the Truth, and the Life, not death...
...Harvard’s parietal rules: “If a man is old enough to be an officer in the armed forces and die in Korea, he is old enough to be left alone with a girl after dark,” he maintained. But administrators continued to cling to the old ways. More than 10 years later, one dean wrote in to the Bulletin to defend the policy and condemn those corrupt students who did not follow it: “fornication must also be understood as an offense punishable by the University on the same grounds...
...people. He is, they complain, more Roman than Greek. They, for their own part, continue to labour under the misapprehension that they hold a special place in the civilized world—why, we Romans are still regarded as barbarians by these people; a people who cling to their glorious past, and, in so doing, fail to recognise this, the late evening of their prominence...