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...snap of a rein across the mule's hindquarters, the simple mechanical whirl of his corn-harvesting machine and the creak of his oak-plank wagon as he hauls another stack of feed corn to his son-in-law's silo. Like their ancestors, Jacob and his kin light their farmhouses with gas lanterns and drive carriage horses--never automobiles--back and forth to town...
...eight officers of the Pudding are "seriously considering expelling" members who apparently knew of the prank beforehand and didn't act to prevent it.CrimsonWilliam B. DecherdSPIKED PUNCH: ELIZABETH H. WINTHROP '01 (left), DANIEL J. RHODES '01 (center), and ANDREW J. KIN '01 read a sign posted on the door of the Hasty Pudding Club announcing the cancellation of last night's punch party...
...some or all of them with involuntary manslaughter and failure to provide aid at the scene of an accident. Mohammed al Fayed, Dodi's father, the parents of Henri Paul, the Fayed security man who was driving that night and died in the crash, and the Spencers, Diana's kin, have all taken steps to become civil parties to the French investigation...
...citizenry. "The key is to protect yourself," says Tom Skinner of the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta. "That requires wearing long clothing, using insect repellent and staying indoors in the hours right before and after sunset." Avoiding encephalitis-carrying mosquitoes may be no harder than avoiding their benign kin; the stakes, however, are decidedly higher...
...sane, and some of the film's offhand observations about the life-styles of the poor and nutty are goofily persuasive (Jerry padlocks his refrigerator and keeps its contents in combination-locked canisters). Caught up in the movie's intricacies, we go along with it, momentarily distant kin to those people who cling desperately to some convoluted explanation for a national tragedy. Conspiracy theory may be reason's most rickety scaffold, but it is more comforting than its alternative, which is chaos theory. Wouldn't want to see a movie about that, would...