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...Raising ducks and chickens in the fresh air is a rooted way of life in the Landes region of southwestern France, where foie gras is the highest expression of both culinary excellence and regional identity. The Laffitte family has been in the poultry trade for the better part of a century, and neither chicken farmer Michel, 50, nor his duck-raising nephew Stéphane, 32, is about to accept that the avian-flu virus could augur the end of a tradition. But like poultry farmers everywhere in France, the Laffittes feel as if they are fighting two battles these...
...next president should make the appointment instead of Summers.“There is a substantial number of people who are worried,” Lorsch said.Lorsch added that Summers’ dean appointment may not have legitimacy, as the outgoing president is a “lame duck.”But Shad Professor of Business Ethics Joseph L. Badaracco Jr. wrote in an e-mail that Summers is in a position to make a well-informed decision.“For what it’s worth, I haven’t heard anyone say a delay makes...
...decision not to divest immediately from South Africa. Instead of meeting with them, Bok quietly decamped to spend the day working in Dana Palmer House. A few days later, the Crimson published an Animal Farm-like allegory about the incident that labeled the president “Derek the Duck...
...Federal Civil Defense Administration released an educational film called “Duck and Cover.” It featured an animated turtle named Bert, who demonstrated how children should protect themselves in the face of a nuclear attack. The thesis of the movie was something like a “nuclear attack might happen at any moment, so we should all be prepared.” At the same time, videos were made by various military agencies showing the structural impact of nuclear bomb blasts; these movies suggest that ducking and covering would not, in fact, have been...
...have barely over 1,000 days left and things they want to get done. But to succeed, they need to resist as long as possible the forces that make Administrations irrelevant. "Some people in the White House are worried that this will hasten the start of the formal lame-duck period, which they were hoping to put off until after the midterm elections," said a Republican official. "This showed a weakened President and a Vice President in a bubble within a bubble." The minute the November midterms are over, attention will turn even faster than usual to the 2008 presidential...