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"Majesty," replied the wizard, "the earth rests on the back of a giant elephant."
HOW ARE AFRICAN ELEPHANTS SIMILAR TO MINKE whales? Neither animal is in immediate danger of extinction, but both are protected by international hunting bans because past efforts to exploit the beasts commercially have driven their populations into precipitous decline. Countries that have well- managed elephant herds, including Zimbabwe, South Africa...
But Feldstein has vocal critics, too, according to Warsh. "Lester Thurow, who himself was a candidate for the presidency of the Bureau in 1977, noting Feldstein's claim that a maharajah, receiving reports from five blind men feeling an elephant, could piece together an accurate picture, tartly compared Feldstein to...
Perot would best serve democracy by following his own advice to "call a dog a dog and an elephant an elephant." That means he should admit that Sunday night's Ross Perot Show was not an attempt to gauge public opinion, but a cynical and egoistic effort to manipulate it...
He is a figure of power and poignance, horror and mystery. He dwells in the fetid cellar of the subconscious; from those depths rises the music of passions we hardly dare attend. He is the Id aching for the Ideal, loathsomeness wanting to be loved, unknown fear reaching up to...