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...lengths to keep its alumni happy, informed, and open-waleted. It would be nice if some of the attention were turned back to the pre-alumni. We don't need beach towels or tote bags, but some respect as individuals might be in order. Otherwise we too will fall prey to the same herd mentality which surfaced at the en masse picture-taking on Widener steps Monday, when most of the 540 returnees clumped happily together, all wearing their silly, floppy class tennis hats. Commented one wife: "With their hats on, you can't tell them apart...
...following day, stunned House leaders and Dukakis staffers lobbied furiously and overturned the vote. The House returned the proposal, slightly amended to require a two-thirds city council vote, to the Senate, where it fell prey to the publicity created by the shuffle...
Current research has focused on the use of tools by animals as a signal of intelligence. Chimpanzees, for example, get at termites by jabbing their nests with twigs. The assassin bug of South America, also a termite fancier, approaches its prey by gluing nest material on its back to serve as camouflage. But, says Beck, the bug's behavior is probably "innate or genetically prewired." Another scientific index is the ability of animals to transmit information through so-called language behavior. Bees, foraging for pollen, return to the hive and perform an intricate figure-eight dance...
...dread. It is a moment in which they are out of control as individuals-not merely outside the law, but out of biological order. Something stirs, an ancient reflex, as if they are dragged back through history to a starting point in evolution. The mob is a pack, its prey the female. Her difference is the instigator, her frailty the goad. Rape what you cannot have. Plunder what you can never know. Mystery equals fear equals rage equals death. It is she who stands for all life's threats, she who released animal instinct in the first place. Once...
...wrongs, especially in an era where so much political discussion tends toward excessive moralizing--just consider the nuclear debate. But Goldman and Fuller eschew an easy judgment either way, whether it be outrage or the wrong-headed "noble cause" nostalgia that a sympathetic warrior's tale could fall prey...