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Harvard Varsity Softball; PBH Pet Therapy Program; Intramural Basketball; Harvard University Mail Service Employee; Department of Athletics Employee...
Feinstein was prescient enough to make illegal immigration a pet issue, which gives her some political cover in her unexpectedly tight race against conservative Santa Barbara Congressman Michael Huffington. But the same cannot be said of Democrat Kathleen Brown, who in a struggle to unseat Governor Pete Wilson finds herself slipping over what has become the most hazardous issue of the 1994 elections. If California runs true to form, leading America's social revolutions through the ballot box, it will pass Proposition 187, an implacable, baldly unconstitutional plan to cut off services to illegal immigrants, from schools to health care...
Step Three: Select a pet issue. All you need to do is choose some Very Bad Thing (VBT) to write ninety percent of your editorials about. The traditional choices by campus writers for VBTs have been things like homophobia, homosexuals, abortions, abortion rights and the status quo. Recently, however, the most popular choice has been The Liberal Menace, an entity supposedly made up of the student body, the administration, certain professors, the press and Satan...
...know an autobiography is in trouble when its best chapter -- funny, intimate, emotionally engaged -- is about the pet raccoon the author loved and lost decades ago. You know a biography is in trouble when sentences like this start popping up: "From the comfort of his foreplay to his gentle whispers, he gave something that was almost at one with female consciousness." Could we see a footnote on that...
...then there was the Great Snake Bust. Snake poaching is a multimillion- dollar industry, in which poachers sell skins and live specimens to pet shops and private collectors through shady mail-order houses. So bad is the problem that scientists studying a recent plague of rats in some communities surrounding Texas' Big Bend National Park came to a startling conclusion: the problem resulted from the absence of their scaly natural predators, which had been nearly poached...