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George Polsky: Elected co-captain of next year's team...Suffered one defeat to Yale's Jeremy Feinstein...Wins the Crimson award for most original analogies--squash is a cheeseburger, a mine field, the mating habits of the Kodiak Bear...
...modern economic pressures. One Alaskan tribe in dire need of funds is reluctantly trying to decide whether to sign away logging rights around Prince William Sound, permit oil drilling in a delicate wildlife area or allow an airfield to be built in the midst of a vast habitat for Kodiak bears. Other tribes have allowed waste-management companies to use reservation land for dumps and disposal sites, then suffered from the contamination of their land and water as a result. Across the vast Arizona tracts of the Navajo Nation, high-voltage wires run like silver threads to the Pacific Ocean...
...adoption of another voice which threatens to imprison the poet, who is reduced to reading and retelling letters. Nevertheless, the experiment works when Harris allows the letter-writer to stretch the limits of the poem to include banter, as she writes in "The Man After Crossing the Gulf from Kodiak...
...shall garbage be also. On almost any mid-autumn day, bears can be spotted foraging in Churchill's town dump. They often come closer in, to sniff around cabins and houses, even parked cars and vans, if they think there may be a snack inside. Polars vie with Kodiak bears for the title of largest land-based carnivore in the world. A full-grown male can weigh more than 1,600 Ibs. (vs. grizzlies at 1,000 Ibs. and tigers at 850 Ibs.). If the bear is determined enough, it will barge right in; few doors are much...
...when they applied for a harbor development permit in 1978. And since they opened shop in Gloucester four years ago, the world has started to watch. Members of Moon's church have gradually established a profitable fish processing plant there in addition to their even more lucrative operations in Kodiak, Alaska; Bayou LaBatre, Ala.; Mobile, Ala.; Norfolk, Va.; San Leandro, Calif.; and New York...