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Meat has been a precious food commodity and a great source of complete protein, vitamins and other nutrients since prehistoric times. In fact, many anthropologists think meat may have played a key role in the evolution of our species. And although vegetarianism has become increasingly popular in recent years, meat of some variety is still at the center of the American plate...
...recourse of the man who “can’t bear to be in disfavor, can’t endure the averted face and the cold shoulder, wants to stand well with his friends, wants to be smiled upon, wants to be welcome, wants to hear the precious words, ‘He’s on the right track!’ Uttered perhaps by an ass, but still an ass of high degree, an ass whose approval is gold and diamonds to a smaller ass, and confers glory and honor and happiness and membership...
...Social Democratic Party. The irony is that the CDU/CSU's proposed reforms are basically a stronger dose of Schröder's medicine. This is the dark side of the Third Way's embrace of fiscal rectitude. As Schröder's troubles show, economic reality leaves politicians precious little wiggle room, and parties have to think twice before promising to bail out troubled companies or increase spending to stimulate the economy. "The crisis among the opposition coincides with economic turmoil in which the margins for maneuver are limited," says French political commentator Alain Duhamel. "Opposition parties can't identify...
Lambert is already on her way to teaching, spending much of her precious spare time with children. As both a Harvard Freshman Outdoors Program leader and a summer counselor at Clearwater Camp in her native Wisconsin, she is gaining the necessary experience...
...stand in the first place, and should be jettisoned as soon as possible. The premise that requiring students to learn a language at Harvard is a waste of their time, as many of them have already mastered languages in high school and do not need to waste their precious college careers continuing with them is patently absurd. First of all, the standards currently acceptable are far too low. Right now one can “place out” of a Harvard language requirement with a 600 score on the SAT II. As every student knows, those standards are risibly...