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...never been easy being an animal at the business end of a hunt, but these days it's hard being the hunter too. Dwindling ranges and herds make the ancient business of stalking prey an increasingly difficult proposition. The answer for many Americans is to shift their shooting grounds from the wild to one of the country's growing number of hunting preserves...
...course, making good on that guarantee requires bending the prey-and-predator rules. Animals at some preserves are so accustomed to humans that they wander into range at the sound of a rattling feed bucket. Elsewhere they're confined to small patches of woods where they can't elude hunters for long. At others they may never even make it out of their cages before being shot...
Most troubling, it's not just prolific-as-rabbits deer and other common prey that are being killed in such canned hunts, as they're sometimes called; it's rarer creatures too. All manner of exotics--including the Arabian oryx, the Nubian ibex, yaks, impalas and even the odd rhino, zebra or tiger--are being conscripted into the canned-hunt game and offered to sportsmen for "trophy fees...
...more bureaucracy and less democracy. With all that on the table, the overwhelming sense that something is missing might not suffice to forge agreement. The Convention's charge to create "more democracy, transparency and efficiency in the European Union" is noble to a fault, but it could easily fall prey to the jealous interests of members who feel they have more tradition to defend than did 13 young states on America's eastern seaboard 215 years...
...recent column “What Do You Do?” by Kevin Hartnett ’03 (Feb. 11) raises interesting questions about individuals’ and society’s perceptions of various occupations, but he falls prey to his own criticism. Hartnett invokes John Dewey, arguing that a person’s job is not the full measure of her individuality. Yet, in his assessment of a Subway sandwich maker, Hartnett “can’t get past the sandwich,” arguing that the worker’s individuality is snuffed...