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Yesterday, Tercentenary Theater welcomed a visitor it had not seen in over 200 years—a cow. The bovine guest was the charge of Harvey G. Cox Jr., Hollis Research Professor of Divinity, who brought her as part of an afternoon-long celebration of his retirement. In doing so, he revived a practice not observed since Edward Wigglesworth—the first to hold the Hollis professorship in 1722—and his son, who succeeded him, first brought their livestock out to graze. Cox retired this past June after 44 years at the Harvard Divinity School, where...
...host of the Travel Channel's Bizarre Foods, Andrew Zimmern has had the job for the past four years of facing down the weirdest dishes found across the world - from cow hooves and juicy cheese worms to penis soup. TIME talked to Zimmern about the show and his new book, The Bizarre Truth, which chronicles some of his more memorable eating adventures to make the point that the best way to understand the world is to show up hungry...
...Halikisla, on the Turkish side, and Bagaran, on the Armenian. Once united, the villages are now separated by a stretch of water little wider than a double bed. Residents never meet, except to cast for trout under the watchful gaze of military guards, or to return an errant cow...
...only natural that Cox kicks off his retirement ceremony and the release of his new book by bringing a Jersey cow named "Pride," courtesy of The Farm School in Athol, Mass., into the Yard. Except the four-legged herbivore will be renamed "Faith" for the day. (God forbid the presence of an amicable, cud-chewing embodiment of one of the seven deadly sins on such an occasion...
Reverend Peter Gomes, longtime friend and supporter of Cox's grazing rights crusade, will preside over the ceremony along the steps of Memorial Church. There will be musical offerings. And a stately procession—with cow in tow—to the green area right behind the Divinity School, where the ceremony will be topped with a much anticipated milking...