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...pardon the pun," says Brett Heffernan, a spokesman for the National Farmers' Federation. "But it's not likely to take over traditional cattle and lamb and everything else. There's still a long way to go for the industry to solidify itself." Animal-rights groups oppose kangaroo culling; the famously vegetarian Paul McCartney even jumped into the fray last year, speaking out against a controversial cull in Canberra. "Our organization does not encourage the eating of our national icon," says Karen Scott, vice-president of Wildcare Australia, a conservation group that rescues native animals...
...that may be the most commercially successful or popular. The rich history of the Advocate, rather than engendering a conflict between the old and the new, actually contributes to its ability to find groundbreaking work. The Advocate attracts a large quantity of submissions for each issue, allowing editors to cull pieces of the highest quality. “We’re not running around desperate for content. We can be selective and get things that are really good and really new,” says design board member Joseph B. Morcos ’12, contrasting the Advocate with...
...Advocate attracts a large quantity of submissions for each issue, allowing editors to cull pieces of the highest quality...
...their defense, these academics are trying to cull universal lessons from particular cases, and a common vocabulary eases this task. The predictive ability that scientific methodology affords is also an asset. But some political scientists want to quantify the unquantifiable. No equation can capture the emotion essential to politics, and getting a feel for human nature from the study of history is more beneficial than tinkering with inherently flawed models...
...long been constant fodder for musicians, New Found Glory have almost always sung about nothing but. They’ve long since run out of creative or interesting ways to talk about the subject, if these were ever accessible to them. It’s difficult to even cull exemplary lyrics, since almost every word that the group records is totally inane, but by the time the album progresses through it’s blurry B-side to the penultimate “This Isn’t You,” the simile “Your words break...