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...They flock to the festival in four-wheel-drive pickups, station wagons and huge recreational vehicles for a couple of days of shopping for items that range from electrified fences and worm medicine to a $200 "rocking sheep" covered in natural fleece. Wolfing down golf-ball-size chunks of fresh lamb barbecue (at $3.50 a plate), they watch as skilled artisans turn piles of fleece into yarn with Rumpelstiltskin-like skill. After hours spent looking over the thickset Dorsets and Suffolks, fine-haired Merinos, goatish Barbado black bellies and exotic Karakuls on display, people whose only past experience with sheep...
...Warn and his wife Pat. A 67-year-old retired Air Force officer, Warn moved from suburban New Jersey to northern New Hampshire a year ago, plunked down several hundred dollars to fence a one-acre pasture and started taking orders for next year's spring lambs. Their "flock" of two newly purchased Southdown Dorset crossbred ewes hasn't even been delivered yet. "First I want to learn to spin," explains Pat, a thin, exuberant woman clutching a sheaf of notes from the fleece-grading lecture. "Then I want to learn to weave. I've been...
Anarchy, or something very near to it, has been a way of life at Harvard since 1969, when the school's Undergraduate Council put itself out of business. Lacking a student government, the droves of high-school council presidents who every year flock to Cambridge have had to content themselves with a system of student-faculty advisory committees--a system that grants students no real institutional power, and only the most deferential voice, in the affairs of the Colleges...
...afternoon progresses and classes end more students flock to the river, and Harvard beach looks more and more like Fort Lauderdale on College Weekend. And the transformation from caterpillar to butterfly, from wonk to human being, has commenced...
...railroad station where Teddy Roosevelt happened to be in 1901 when he learned that William McKinley had been assassinated and he was about to become President of the U.S. Spectators clustered around the most hazardous stretches of the river, like the Spruce Mountain rapids, just as auto-racing fans flock to the most dangerous turns...