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Montana Wildlife Biologists John and Frank Craighead, perhaps the foremost authorities on the grizzly, insist that the answer is for the Park Service to drop its "forever wild" doctrine, at least as far as bears are concerned. In the early 1970s, at the height of their quarrel with the federal authorities, the 66-year-old twin brothers angrily quit their grizzly studies in Yellowstone. Says John: "It's fine to say that you want a pristine, pre-Columbian setting, but it won't work in Yellowstone [which had 2.4 million visitors last year]. Man is a definite part...
...Right now, we have neither the time nor the resources to organize such a debate. The Daily's first and foremost commitment is to report the news, not organize it," said Editor-in-Chief Kathryn Balint...
...phony. But they circulated surreptitiously in Russia and translations proliferated. In the early 1920s, Henry Ford's weekly paper, the Dearborn Independent, incorporated the Protocols in a series of anti-Semitic articles. These, including the Protocols, were published as a book (The International Jew: The World's Foremost Problem) that eventually sold half a million copies. The Rev. Charles Coughlin, the radio priest, harangued his listeners about the Jewish plot...
Nevertheless, there are reasons to be both seriously excited and concerned by what the first council had to offer. Its subtle influence across campus is foremost. The council doled out thousands of dollars to dozens of organizations with money collected from student term bills. These funds in turn translated into publications, symposiums and projects which reached all students repeatedly. Look closely issues of publications and posters from clubs without special thanks to the Undergraduate Council for a crucial grant are rare exceptions...
...THIS SEEMS short shrift for a major novel by one of America's foremost writers, well, it is. The book: as you might have guessed by now, is painfully bad. The writing tries to mimic the Biblical cadence which translators often give to old, mythic stories and hence seems gimmicky, especially with Mailer's consuming interest in sex and scatology (an important episode in the book comes when Menenhetet steals some of the Pharaoh's feces, I swear). But even more annoying than the problems in execution, the concerns of the book, and its vacillation between comic book heroism...