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...turns out that few people actually enjoy the taste of pangolin?a scaly anteater whose flesh is a blend of gristle and rubber. The same goes for the nocturnal civet, which has a gamy aftertaste that even the thickest brown sauce can't mask. And who really enjoys camel hump, which tastes just as you'd expect a blubbery lump to taste? But flavor isn't what really matters to many of the diners tucking into China's wildlife menagerie. "Businessmen come here to prove their wealth," says George Ng, a Shanghai-based restaurateur who specialized in cobra and other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Noxious Nosh | 6/2/2003 | See Source »

...guess we never quite got over the hump with those guys,” Prasse-Freeman intoned matter-of-factly, summing up four years of frustration in one understated sentence...

Author: By Daniel E. Fernandez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Ladies' Dan: A Legacy Of Hope And Heartbreak | 2/24/2003 | See Source »

Sketchiest moment at Harvard: Um, I rub my ass against friends everyday in the dining hall and occasionally air hump them...

Author: By Ishani Ganguli and Maria S. Pedroza, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: The Blind Leading the Blind | 2/13/2003 | See Source »

...Buccaneers paid that hefty price to acquire coach Jon Gruden last offseason in a trade with the Raiders (who also made out like, um, bandits), but he put them over the hump after they stalled in the playoffs four of the last five years. Now Tampa Bay has wiggled out of the undistinguished group of franchises that have never advanced to the Super Bowl: Arizona, Carolina, Cleveland, Detroit, Jacksonville, New Orleans and Seattle. Considering only one of those teams, Cleveland, even made the playoffs this season, it's no stretch to say they'd all accept a similar deal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Super Bowl XXXVII Preview | 1/23/2003 | See Source »

...ourselves in a position,” Sullivan said. “We couldn’t guard them when we needed to get over the hump...

Author: By David R. De remer, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: M. Basketball Scares BC Before Falling | 1/6/2003 | See Source »

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