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Cuomo's speeches remain stirring today, even as they strike a less hopeful tone. As he said last winter, "Preserving this state as a place that provides opportunity to the able and protection to the defenseless--that must be our goal now. It will not be easy...

Author: By Robert W. Gordon, | Title: Bush's Ally in Albany | 9/21/1991 | See Source »

...name they are slaughter, not sport, with no vestige of a fair contest between man and beast. In pursuit of a trophy to hang on the wall or a videotape of their exploits, well-to-do hunters in the U.S. are paying thousands of dollars to shoot defenseless exotic animals at point-blank range. There is no accurate count of the number of such killings, but authorities are finally beginning to crack down on them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shooting Leopards in a Barrel | 6/10/1991 | See Source »

Last fall, self-described "humorists" from the Harvard Lampoon--a semi-sadomasochistic social club that periodically publishes perennially pitiful parodies--axmurdered Cambridge's brave, defenseless Freedom tree. This violent affront to American liberty and the local environment sickened and saddened...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD ISSUES | 6/6/1991 | See Source »

Northeastern's three points were three more points than defenseless Boston University rang up against the Crimson in the semifinal. Harvard whitewashed the Terriers, 29-0, behind fullback Lauren Rose's trio of tries...

Author: By John B. Roberts, | Title: M. Rugby Captures Beanpot | 5/1/1991 | See Source »

Last fall, self-described "humorists" from the Harvard Lampoon--a semi-sadomasochistic social club that periodically publishes perennially pitiful parodies--massacred Cambridge's brave, defenseless Freedom Tree. With an axe. This violent affront to American liberty and the local environment sickened and saddened...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Do Unto Others... | 4/23/1991 | See Source »

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