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...Dine encourages precocious felines to step on a pedal to get at the kibble. For cats who accompany their owners, there are carrying cases that cost as much as $420 for Louis Vuitton versions, and for $33.98, a caring cat owner may invest in a tiny, burglar-and rat-proof door that can be installed at the bottom of a regular house door; the cat opens it with a magnetic device worn around its neck. At Animal Kingdom in Chicago, there is the Cat-A-Lac rolling bed that sells for $34 and a kitty rocking horse to calm...
Says he: "There are enough strains on you here already." Indeed, V.M.I, students are still expected to toe the traditional rat line, a punishingly rigid code of behavior made famous by the 1938 movie Brother Rat (featuring Ronald Reagan). The Citadel has only slightly eased its own version of the code. At meals, for example, freshmen, or "knobs," are no longer required to sit at attention and request each helping from an upperclassman...
Despite their apparent comeback, debate on whether or not to admit women continues, though less hotly at the two military schools. There, cadets tend to agree with a vehement V.M.I, official: "There is no such thing as a Sister Rat, and there never could be." At the other schools, opinion is divided. By one estimate, 60% of the students at Wabash are against coeducation, the faculty is split evenly, and alumni are 95% opposed...
...Golden Rule and crown it with the autocracy of service" is still under review. William Howard Taft, when facing a challenge for renomination from Teddy Roosevelt, struck back, and told the New York Times: "I have been a man of straw long enough. Even a rat in a corner will fight." To confuse matters further, Roosevelt ran as a bull moose...
Wild Stares and The Gluons--the Rat...