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The bust in oil prices will pass in time like the seven-year drought of the '50s. But for all the usual Texas exuberance, one hears sometimes an elegiac note. Ranches are being broken up into "ranchettes," absurd little parcels of land in the middle of nowhere. The owner thereby...
The most exotic of the new beefs is zebu, an unfortunate name that suggests the animal is at least part zebra and might summon images of black-and-white- striped steaks. Instead, this haughty-looking animal is a variety of humpbacked cattle native to India and Brazil that is crossbred...
I am taking the time to revise and amplify your report of my comments in order to correct any false impression that I am an enemy of welfare state liberalism who adheres to some marginal, exotic brand of ultra-radical politics. I embrace many of the political and moral sentiments...
Writing about India poses, of course, a similar dilemma. Those aspiring to something beyond costumes and pageantry must try to portray the native inhabitants from within, as they think and feel, to disprove Kipling's saw about the twain never meeting. This task is not only difficult but potentially self...
More than 100 undergraduates danced to exotic-sounding music of steel and salsa bands, munched on spicy Caribbean foods, and cheered limbo contest entrants Saturday afternoon at the annual Caribbean Club Party in Memorial Hall.