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...many years. Mahafuzur Rahaman Bahar, a member of the Bangladesh Truck Drivers' Union, says drivers once operated according to a "token" scheme. By paying a fixed sum to the first extortionist they encountered, they received a colored-paper token imprinted with the sign of a tree or a cow, which guaranteed free passage to their destination. So long as corruption operated within the defined rules of a scheme, Bangladeshis got along with their lives...
...real trick to their belovedness is that Joel and Ethan Coen go highbrow on lowbrow: opera parody mixes with stoner humor in The Big Lebowski, a cow explodes in the middle of a Depression-era adaptation of The Odyssey in O Brother, Where Art Thou?, and quips about Renaissance music are juxtaposed with irritable-bowel syndrome in their latest, The Ladykillers, which opens this Friday. "We're not embarrassed to put in the cheapest gags if they make us laugh," says Joel, 49. "On the other hand, if something goes over somebody's head, we don't care...
With fears of mad cow lingering, it's a relief to learn that we probably don't have to worry about a related condition--chronic wasting disease--that afflicts deer and elk. In a survey of death certificates in infected areas, Colorado scientists found no increase in human deaths attributable to the disease...
Self-satisfied students immediately scorned the inane hippie agitators, who just didn’t get that eating chicken and wearing cow is the natural order. Sure, nobody favors animal abuse, but according to many students, theatrical stunts like the recent “love-in” won’t convince anyone to go cold turkey on meat. It’s certainly disappointing that so many Harvard students, who ostensibly favor justice and fairness, hastily dismissed a group promoting those exact ideals...
...this conflict.” In a billboard suggesting that milk causes cancer, former New York City Mayor Rudi Giuliani (then ailing from prostate cancer) was depicted with a milk moustache next to the bolded words, “Got Milk?” And during the first Mad Cow scare, a PETA executive mused that America’s meat-eaters would get what they deserved if the disease reached American shores...