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...next pet was an adorable baby lamb, here on a visit. For the record, baby lambs do not “baaah.” It’s more like a screeching honk, which echoes incessantly day and night from the blanketed trashcan in which he slept. In between the honks, he required bottles, lullaby singing and constant supervision. Though adorable, Harvard the baby lamb (its sister, Cornell, lived in Ithaca) was thankfully soon sent home to a family farm...

Author: By Arianne R. Cohen, | Title: Hamsters? What Hamsters? | 4/28/2003 | See Source »

...that U.S. troops were put in peril. "The mood changes," says Claire Gorfinkel, who co-chairs Interfaith Communities United for Justice and Peace, a Pasadena, Calif., coalition with a 1,000-member mailing list. At rallies and marches, Gorfinkel says, passersby are less willing to flash peace signs and honk car horns. "My hunch is that there will be a reassessment on a broad scale throughout society for a period of time, a pendulum swing, if you will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dissent: Voices Of Outrage | 3/31/2003 | See Source »

...deal, decided the firemen hadn't given enough. Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott said the agreement would have required "a blank check," which was out of the question. The mood on Collis' picket line was bitter, only broken by noisy cheers as passing motorists responded to a sign saying honk if you support us. The anger was directed at the government: How could Labour - Labour, for Heaven's sake! - refuse to find money for deserving workers when it was prepared to pay out hundreds of millions of taxpayers' money for a war with Iraq? Says Collis, "I was a Tory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Fireman's Lament | 11/24/2002 | See Source »

...Lisa, I hope you like this response paper as much as I liked that sweater you wore to section last week. Honk, honk...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fifteen worst ways to open a response paper | 10/24/2002 | See Source »

Police accused Mughogho of writing a widely distributed leaflet calling on motorists to honk their car horns and other people to make noise at specific times to show their opposition to the third-term amendment...

Author: By Samuel M. Kabue, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Malawi Arrests ’94 Graduate | 9/23/2002 | See Source »

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