Word: elephantitis
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The incident, in which at least two wardens were wounded, was the latest skirmish in a war that has pitted a growing army of rhino and elephant poachers against an outgunned force of rangers and police. The lure for poachers is great: prized in Asia as an aphrodisiac and in...
It's a touching story, but one could wish Director Nair had skipped some of the melodramatic touches. Sweet Sixteen's deflowering, for example, takes place during the festival of Holi, a spring rite in which red dye symbolic of the menstrual flow adorns the particpants. Under the auspices of...
The compound has become Christendom's most lumbering white elephant. Last week an unlikely angel of rescue appeared. He is not a Gospel glad-hander but an Orthodox Jew named Stephen Mernick. The reticent 34-year-old Toronto businessman reportedly underwent intensive religious training and holds rabbinical ordination but has...
Reza reads a lot, especially stories about the weak using stratagems to beat the strong. An example is The Pushcart War by Jean Merrill, the tale of a battle between pushcart vendors and truck drivers that the pushcart vendors win despite apparently hopeless odds, a triumph of brain over brawn...
The city is also doing all it can to keep those thousands of conventiongoers happy. For the faithful, they're holding an ecumenical prayer breakfast this morning. And on Bourbon Street, the strip joints and taverns are draped in patriotic bunting. The Hyatt Hotel, host to thousands of convention journalists...