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...vehicles and roads. As the exodus progressed, the Ouwehands Zoo in Rhenen, just north of the flood zone, turned into a latter-day Noah's ark. For three days the zoo took in streams of animals, from household pets to ponies, donkeys, pheasants and kangaroos. Custodian Peter van der Eijk reported wearily, ``We're high and dry here, but we're completely full.'' Attic rooms, church lofts and the second floors of still busy taverns up and down northern Europe's waterways were feeling more than crowded as well. Ouwehands' zoo keepers had a relatively simple time. At least...
...event, the amputations are reportedly being ordered by members of the ruling Baath Party rather than by religious courts, as called for in the Koran. Max Van Der Stoel, a Dutch human-rights monitor for the U.N. in Iraq, who has documented the abuses, says Hussein's real intent is to stifle popular opposition...
...dafter masterpieces of Western art, rich in overreach, Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen is an obvious target for takeoffs of all sorts. The latest is Das Barbecu, which arrived last week off-Broadway after having been developed in several regional theater productions. Concentrating on the last opera, Gotterdammerung, the show is set in oil-rich Texas. Not a bad idea: like Valhalla, Texas was built by the iron whim of wealthy men. Jim Luigs, who wrote the book and lyrics, sees the gods as feuding, singing cowboys. Five exceedingly busy people manage to rush through 30 parts...
...Henry Der was typical. He is president of one of the most prominent Asian American lobbies, Chinese for Affirmative Action, and virtually admitted to me that his advocacy group shuns democratic principles...
...Der's organization supports affirmative action despite his acknowledgement that many, perhaps most, Chinese immigrant families oppose it. Der thinks he knows what's best for Asian Americans in spite of themselves...