Word: dominions
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...determined to never become a PETA acolyte, I also couldn’t shake entirely what I had seen in Vietnam. I read Matthew Scully’s beautiful book Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy and began to wonder if our meat-production system merely sanitized and institutionalized the cruelty I had seen in Vietnam. Increasingly unsettled, I made a fateful decision to visit a slaughterhouse...
...against “the Tribe” and “the Monarchs.”While such monikers together provoke colorful comparisons, No. 63 Harvard (6-4) offered its own contrast by recording a win and a loss versus No. 49 William & Mary (12-9) and Old Dominion (15-9), respectively.With only one point the difference in the two keenly-contested fixtures, it was a contrast not quite as vivid as tribalism and royalty.“We were outclassed in the doubles, which we thought we might be, and we fought incredibly hard in the singles...
...public discourse, and even if one were to ignore the unconstitutionality of the means to this end, a critical flaw still lingers. If the FCC is given the authority to dictate what constitutes “balanced” coverage of the issues, then the FCC is given dominion over the definition of “balanced.” There are far more than only two sides to every debate, and yet the assumption goes that the FCC would only stipulate that conventional liberal and conventional conservative paradigms be represented...
Although the Harvard women’s tennis team headed South for a pair of matches this weekend, all was not sunny for the Crimson. The squad faced two ranked opponents, losing, 5-2, against No. 57 Old Dominion on Sunday and falling, 6-1, to No. 31 William & Mary on Saturday. Freshman Caroline Davis was Harvard’s lone victor on Saturday. Davis also won her match Sunday, as did sophomore Samantha Rosekrans. “It is always a challenge and a privilege to play against ranked teams,” Crimson coach Traci Green said...
...people, and the uranium would fuel new reactors and help the nation kick its foreign oil habit. Opponents point out that almost all uranium mining in the United States occurs in arid, sparsely populated places out west that are geologically unlike anything in Virginia. In the water-rich Old Dominion, they argue, radioactive materials from uranium such as thorium-230, radium-226 and radon-222 could shake loose and leach into the groundwater. Meanwhile, the large piles of mining debris known as "tailings" could blow in the wind and contaminate the air. "It's going to rain down dust like...