Word: horsley
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...horns on that one," game farmer Richard Horsley says admiringly, pointing to a large male nyala, one of 10 coarse-haired African antelope waiting to go on the block at the Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife game auction in the Hluhluwe-iMfolozi regional park in northern KwaZulu- Natal. "They've got a nice turn to them and they're spread nice and far, tip to tip. That's a beauty." "Very symmetrical," agrees a friend. I want to show off my animal knowledge, so I break in: "The horns are a good indicator of the animal's health, no?" The men turn...
...historians have begun to argue for a more nuanced appreciation. Caiaphas knew better than anyone that the doomed Jewish revolts inevitably started at the Temple, frequently during Passover, as keyed-up pilgrims celebrated Israel's liberation from an earlier oppressor. He knew Pilate as a ruler, says Richard Horsley of the University of Massachusetts, Boston, who "shot first and asked questions later." Personal pride notwithstanding, the high priest had reason to act against a Jew who had disrupted the Temple and may have been plotting another grand entrance on the second day of the feast. To Caiaphas, says Lee Levine...
Beyond that, antiabortion crusaders plan to harass pharmacological abortionists just as they do the old-fashioned kind. After being kicked off the Web by six different Internet providers, for example, activist NEAL HORSLEY is back online with his "RU-486 Registry" website, which, among other things, will be listing the names of doctors who dispense the drug. Horsley's websites have been criticized in the past for inciting violence: Buffalo, N.Y., abortion provider Dr. Barnett Slepian was on a Horsley list when he was murdered in 1998. Not guilty, says Horsley. All he does is "write factually verifiable information about...