Word: pet
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...next pet was an adorable baby lamb, here on a visit. For the record, baby lambs do not “baaah.” It’s more like a screeching honk, which echoes incessantly day and night from the blanketed trashcan in which he slept. In between the honks, he required bottles, lullaby singing and constant supervision. Though adorable, Harvard the baby lamb (its sister, Cornell, lived in Ithaca) was thankfully soon sent home to a family farm...
...Handbook for Students’ policy on student pets is succinct: “No student may keep an animal in a building owned or leased by the College.” I never knew the specific rule; I always figured that a friendly pet would add light and cheer to the sun-deprived dorm life of Harvard. My 13 roommates over the years agreed. Oh how wrong we were. For future reference, although pets are fun and a great distraction from schoolwork, they are also expensive, hellish to move on vacations, and incredibly time-consuming. College students have...
...still on a mission for a worthwhile, less time-intensive pet, to love and care for and play with during those depressing all-nighters. In a sudden flush of benevolence, I adopted Charlie the python from an emergency pet center. He was a quiet and portable pet who traveled in a pillowcase, enjoyed silently slithering around my room while I studied, and had an affection for one of my roommates, whom he followed around. The perfect dorm pet. But looks can be deceiving. It was a nuisance to hide evidence of Charlie during room inspections, including his two-yard long...
Back in Washington, the Pentagon has been grooming some useful backup for Chalabi. Two subway stops from downtown, upstairs from a McDonald's, are the offices of the seven-week-old Iraq Reconstruction and Development Council. A pet project of Wolfowitz's, the organization consists of a group of exiled Iraqi technocrats sympathetic to Chalabi who have been feverishly planning how to restart everything from irrigation to trash collection to oil production as soon as the fighting stops. When they get the word from Garner, they will deploy as liaisons between his temporary American ministers and those Iraqis deemed salvageable...
...safe house in which Uday could hide out, as well as, according to a neighbor, a "love nest" to which he would bring his many girlfriends. Snapshots found in the remains of a darkroom show him fishing with friends, riding a motorbike in a black leather jacket, posing with pet lions and hanging out in shorts and a cowboy...