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...Lyman Common Room, Agassiz House, Radcliffe Yard...
...more her mad-cow disease guests talked, the more troubled Oprah Winfrey became. Food-safety activist Howard Lyman warned that America's cattle industry was inviting a mad-cow outbreak by its practice of "rendering," or grinding up, cows and feeding them to other cows. "Now doesn't that concern you all a little bit, right here, hearing that?" she asked, eliciting a roar of approval from the audience. With that, Oprah uttered the now famous words: "It has just stopped me cold from eating another burger!" Then a representative of the National Cattlemen's Beef Association conceded that...
...industry decided to sue. Texas rancher Paul Engler, who claims he lost more than $6 million, charged in a federal lawsuit that the show's "carefully and maliciously edited statements were designed to hype ratings at the expense of the American cattle industry." Engler's suit against Oprah and Lyman, which went to trial in Amarillo last week, is the first ever under an odd Texas statute--one that forbids food "disparagement" and opens the way for lawsuits when fruits, vegetables or meat are defamed...
...Nothing that anybody asks me can ever surprise me anymore," she pronounces when asked about how she developed to become such an involved activist student (one of the founding members of RADWAC, an Education for Action member, Lyman Common Room coordinator and Queer Action Group participant...
...roomy office in Lyman, complete with a picture of her partner, Alyson, is worlds away from her childhood in the blue-collar suburbs of Cleveland. It is an era of her life for which she seems to have mixed feelings...