Word: pigging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Episode One: (a lonely Monday morning, 2 a.m., October 1987, Winthrop House dining hall). While working on a Statistics 100 problem set, I gradually wake up to the reality that a large, grey rat (about the size of a fat guinea pig) is peering down at me from the nearby Coke machine. After a near miss from a No. 2 pencil, the rat hastily scampers behind the machine and out of sight. Although I will probably never know whether the two events are connected, about a week or so after this encounter, the Winthrop House Coke machine...
BUNDY was one of the most gruesome serial killers in memory. In 1980 he was convicted of the murder of 12-year-old Kimberly Leach. Leach had been abducted, mutilated, slain and abandoned in a pig sty. In 1979, Bundy was found guilty of the murders of two Florida State students, whom he bludgeoned and strangled in their sorority house. All told, Bundy was suspected of over 30 murders in Florida and the Pacific Northwest...
...ecumenical, nonprofit outfit. Much of his time is spent visiting local Habitat affiliates and proselytizing. Once or twice a year he takes hammer in hand and helps finish off a Habitat home with the volunteers. Full-time helpers in Americus, Ga., are paid only their lodging and a weekly "pig check" -- a $25 certificate redeemable at the Piggly Wiggly supermarket...
There were long, hard years in the 1930s and '40s when they were treated like animals. But once the right roles came along, the applause never stopped. Today Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, the Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote, Sylvester and Tweety, and their colleagues remain Saturday-morning superstars. They are also the focus of That's All Folks! by Steve Schneider (Henry Holt; 253 pages; $39.95). This comic valentine offers impeccable research, interviews with the animated geniuses who breathed life and laughter into their Looney Tunes, and hundreds of rare illustrations. Given the price of a single...
...steal the land on one pretext or another. The rural police, notaries and Tonton Macoutes also seize property with a flourish of phony documents and a bag of city tricks. Even those who try to help the peasants often end up hurting them. When African swine fever hit the pig population of Haiti several years ago, Haitian authorities, under U.S. insistence, slaughtered all the peasants' hardy black Creole pigs. Unable to afford the new, imported white pigs or provide for their finicky tastes, most peasants suffered a severe decline in their standard of living...