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...Dances with Wolves, The Last of the Mohicans and A River Runs Through It, viewed by urban audiences sitting elbow-to-elbow in the dark. Most will never know what it is to be dwarfed by an old-growth forest, spy brook trout sipping mayflies or hear a wolf howl. For many, such subtle communion has been replaced by the stridency of environmentalism, a full-blown crusade, and by dire appeals on behalf of distant rain forests and a bestiary of endangered species. In these alliances, those remote from nature draw comfort that though embattled, the wild still exists...
...enterprising writer like Jamaica Kincaid, who is lecturing here this semester, has been able to spin gold from the flax of her colonial experience. Almost her entire body of work is an unrelenting howl of agony about the inequities of power...
Weber asked the group to howl in order to evoke a response from the wolves. One wolf, however, was scared and walked out of the room...
...billion credit line for cleaning up the banks. To prevent such a disaster from happening again, Congress and the Bush Administration fired off a barrage of tough new banking standards. But when federal regulators began enforcing the new rules with an iron fist, many banks and borrowers started to howl. Last year the Bush Administration ordered regulators to ease up, but so far, most bankers remain fearful that any laxity on their part will bring regulatory punishment or even closure. "The weaker banks want to spend more time trying to clean up their balance sheets than making new loans," says...
...Quad Howl" (the suburban version of the River Houses' pre-exam primal scream) can sometimes get out of hand (bandies overtook the roof of Cabot House this year), but I figured this tank wasn't from the National Guard. No, its real purpose was more pressing. The tank was circling unceasingly and shooting grass seed from a huge cannon about 40 feet...