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...After hours in Stilz’s mobile compost pile and Scalise’s “Shagg’n-Wagg’n,” the team arrives in Ithaca, on the prowl for fuel. “Scooby snacks are a must,” Scalise says, gripping a shopping cart. By the end of a fifteen-minute search in the supermarket, Botero’s interest in purchasing Cracker Stackers has been vetoed by Snow and two boxes of Scooby snacks have been claimed...
Maybe there needs to be a camera in his cell, so that victims can watch him pace and prowl and go slowly mad with boredom. And he should be able to see them too: At a Portfolio magazine breakfast, Wiesel suggested there be a screen on which would appear in relentless accusation the faces of his victims, "one after the other after the other, always saying, 'Look, look what you have done' ... He should not be able to avoid those faces, for years to come...
...settle for a pageant of public shaming, in which the scoundrels must beg forgiveness and make amends; we'd claw back those bonuses, foreclose on their castles, auction their toys, watch the once mighty prowl a grocery aisle calculating whether they can afford the big box of cereal that is a better deal but ties up more capital. It might appease our restless animal spirits for a time; biologists have found that receiving an apology affects blood chemistry, slows the heart rate and calms our breathing - all much needed at a moment of national fibrillation. Chimpanzees apologize, or at least...
...FROM THE TOP Last year, however, organizing a Ceili might have proved impossible. Corcairdhearg is a new student organization, founded in the spring of 2008. The idea stemmed from Fallon and O’Brien’s own interests. Also, as competitive dancers, they were constantly on the prowl for practice space. Meanwhile, Forberg, who also used to compete, longed to get back into Irish dancing. “When I came to Harvard, I realized I missed Irish dancing. I didn’t realize how much I love it until I stopped,” she says...
...Most legal experts say the U.S. was well within its rights to prowl where it was at the time it was approached by the Chinese armada on Sunday. "The U.S. was collecting undersea data that is related to war-fighting and is not banned by the treaty rules covering exploitation of resources in the economic zone," writes John McCreary, a military-intelligence veteran of more than three decades, on his NightWatch blog. "The Chinese are just angry that the U.S. Navy can watch them...