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...cross-species delivery was the third of its kind. Three years ago at New York City's Bronx Zoo, Flossie, a Holstein dairy cow, gave birth to a gaur (rhymes with tower), a rare type of wild ox that inhabits the forests of South Asia. In 1977 two wild Sardinian sheep were born to a domestic sheep at Utah State University...
Clemens says of Nolan's strength, "Andy Nolan is as strong as an ox. He has speed and quickness, and also an innate football sense...
Nonetheless, colleagues and officials say. Knowles's performance as chairman--during which he helped carry off two difficult negotiations to bring prominent outside scholars to Harvard--as well as his cool Ox-Bridge temperament could well have put him on Bok's lists of finalists...
John le Carré, 51, on his hesitation at having his books made into movies: "No writer wants to see his ox turned into a bouillon cube...
...Laura moves in, finally. They cook his favorite dessert, dance to gramophone schlock, buy a bird-feeder. The shortness of domestic bliss keeps it from over-sweetening the movie, as Laura soon finds herself stifled by Charles' passion and jealousy. There are absurd attempts to fetch her back from Ox and his daughter, mostly culminating in physical removal. It is obvious that the romance, as all romance in Chilly Scenes, was at best a respite rather than a rescue from the loneliness and unglamorous desperation of day-to-day existence...