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...regard the amphibian gourmands with the equanimity of Queenslanders, who have grown used to skidding in their cars along toad-covered roads. The cane toad, said one member of the Northern Territory Legislative Council, is "loathsome and repulsive," and the council rushed through a bill anathematizing it as "an outlaw ... a pest to be destroyed on sight...
...Faculty of Arts and Sciences, of all the faculties at Harvard, is most concerned with pure scholarship, and that seems to entail a shutting out of everything else in the world. Just as the Faculty could play an integral part in the planning of the Indochina War and then outlaw disruptions by students protesting that partly Harvard-made war, the Faculty seems to feel as if it can remain separate from the society it is part of and helps create. No one at Harvard would say equal employment is bad, but it is important for everyone in the University...
...Oklahoma Kid is another oddity: Bogart and Cagney as cowboys, so to speak. Bogart runs the House of Entertainment and wears the black hat; Cagney, though an outlaw, wears a white one. The first time I saw The Oklahoma Kid, I predicted I would finally see Cagney speak his memorable line ("You dirty rat. You killed my brother.") at the end of the last reel. But he doesn't, and my Cagney Fan Club sources tell me he never said it in any movie...
...access to abortions during the first three months of pregnancy. The ruling was regarded by many women's rights groups as the end of a battle against laws they considered discriminatory. But for anti-abortion forces, the decision marked the beginning of a new round of efforts to outlaw abortion...
...says. "Sometimes I don't really know why I picked a certain team until the next morning." Before the line is posted during the regular season, Martin runs it by some experienced Las Vegas bettors to see how they react. At this stage it is known as the outlaw line-one that will not necessarily be available to ordinary bettors. If the "wise guys" bet as Martin expects, the line goes...