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...male final clubs often hog the attention given to the Harvard social scene, but it's the all-female organizations that are experiencing a surge in participation on campus. Ranks swelled during the fall, and group leaders say they expect even more women to join during the coming semester...
...race shifts to the national arena. Candidates--who talked about taxes in taxophobic New Hampshire and hog farming in agriculturally minded Iowa--will now talk about national defense, about leadership and about governmental reform...
...recent years livestock waste has been implicated in massive fish kills and outbreaks of such diseases as pfiesteria, which causes memory loss, confusion and acute skin burning in people exposed to contaminated water. In the U.S., livestock now produce 130 times as much waste as people do. Just one hog farm in Utah, for example, produces more sewage than the city of Los Angeles. These megafarms are proliferating, and in populous areas their waste is tainting drinking water. In more pristine regions, from Indonesia to the Amazon, tropical rain forest is being burned down to make room for more...
...Revolution parallels and Orwell's timeless warnings against slippery language and manipulation; in a clever if heavy-handed addition, pigs salvage a TV set from the farmhouse to keep the animals docile. And the filmmakers use ingenious images to dramatize how image control is essential to tyrants. When the hog Napoleon (voiced by Patrick Stewart) becomes absolute dictator, his apotheosis is celebrated by a martial chorus of foot-stomping ducks in a perfect and hilarious imitation of a Stalinist propaganda musical...
...LEAST HE WON'T HOG...