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...early human groups relatively easy. Cats are highly territorial, making them suitable pets for the permanently settled. Both species share the desirable trait of eliminating their wastes outside their dens. Less tangible is the "cute response." Serpell's sources suggest that the pudgy features of all young mammals elicit sympathetic and nurturing reactions from adults...
...greatest sleeper," Lewis says. Bond, for his part, remembers that the early-to-rise Lewis would fall asleep when they went to the movies, "even if it was Conan." And he remembers how they would sit around the bars of Holiday Inns while traveling through the South and elicit personal confessions from each other. "We used to visit five or six towns a day together," he recalls, as he flips through old scrapbooks picking out pictures of the two of them...
Taber, with International Editor Karsten Prager and Economy & Business Senior Editor Charles P. Alexander, moderated the sessions. Says Prager: "The meeting provided a forum in which all sides could not only present their own situations but elicit immediate responses and debate from their counterparts." Alexander observes: "The discussions gave us a unique worldwide perspective. To find out how economists from opposite sides of the world view the same event was enlightening...
...conflicting duty to protect the integrity of the judicial system. But it agreed with Shapiro's decision not to let Rubin walk away from the case. Its proposed solution: Rubin could allow the "defendant to take the stand and deliver his statement in narrative form," decline to "elicit the perjurious testimony by questioning," and refuse to "argue the false testimony during closing argument." Following these guidelines, the court assured Rubin, would fulfill his ethical obligations while giving his client all the effective assistance to which he was entitled...
...dolphins do backflips in sync; a walrus sprays his audience on cue; seals eat fish dangled by children; there are even a few humans doing water-ski daredeviltry to pre-Beatles rock in the Beach Blanket Ski Party show. As at Disney World, Sea World works hard to elicit one of two reactions from its visitors: awe ("Isn't that amazing!") and awwww ("Isn't that cute!"). Because Sea World's stars are live animals and not electronic humanoids, the reactions are genuinely effusive...