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...joined for her initiation ritual by several white-robed men and women. On the floor are vessels made of china and wood containing smooth stones in which the spirits of the gods reside. A priest named Jorge leads in a goat from the garage. The animal moves reluctantly, like a stubborn dog. As the chanting congregation beseeches the deity Chango to accept the animal, a santero, or priest, holds the animal's head firmly, stretching the neck with one hand. With a sharp knife he easily slices through the carotid artery. The animal struggles feebly. Seconds later, the goat...
What truly gets my goat is that this Cowboy Crusader is more of a hypocrite than he charges his opponents...
...Ivan ("Goat") Brown ('42) drove from Jacksonville, Florida, eager to spin his story about the Halloween night he loaded an outdoor privy on his old Plymouth and set it up in the school yard. Margaret Coffey McGrath ('29) of Chevy Chase, Maryland, laughed when she recounted cutting classes to attend a football game in a nearby town. "My mother drove us," she said, "but we got punished anyway. We had to memorize the preamble to the Constitution...
...most exciting discovery: a large, horned mammal that may be a kind of goat. Scientists brought out bones and skin samples to help them find out where it fits in the evolutionary puzzle. The expedition, sponsored by the World Wildlife Fund, also brought back sightings or specimens of two new species of bird, one new kind of fish, and a previously unknown, yellow- shelled tortoise -- and there are probably more new creatures to be found. A follow-up expedition is already in the works...
...center of power in Arkansas, the city has long been resented. Jeff Davis, an enormously successful demagogue of the early century, always ran against Little Rock and kept declaring his independence of the place even when he had to live there as Governor. He tethered a goat on the Governor's lawn to show that his heart was still with the hill folks. He won his first term in office crusading against the construction of a capitol building in the city -- a new home for the despised politicians. The antipolitics of our own time is just rediscovering the ploys...