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Quokka: My favorite Australian cuddly critter. Some dub it a cuter, smaller kangaroo; the cruel observer might describe it as a knee-high giant rat...
...services.” I say daunting, and certainly unenviable, because I doubt that any committee could have prevented my friend’s sojourn at UHS. He generally drank responsibly and thought that he knew his limits. On that night, however, as he struggled through the senior year rat-race to find a sweet gig for next fall, he set out to get blitzed. The $300+ ambulance ride was not part of the plan, of course, but he craved some temporary amnesia and the itch to dance his cares away. Alcohol delivered...
...occupying force in Iraq. The two days of meetings in Washington that followed turned out to be fateful. Although Bremer was not directly blamed for the occupation's troubles in Iraq, it was plain that his halo had slipped. The message that Bush gave his fellow gym rat last week, says a senior official, can be reduced to five words: "Let's get on with it." "It" turns out to be a thorough reworking of Bremer's plan to turn power over to the Iraqis...
...character Pepe Le Pew (another bon vivant blithely ignorant of the way the world saw and smelled him), Norton exuded a sweet assurance that life would treat him as he treated life: with an easy shrug and an eager guffaw. That's how an acute farceur humanized a sewer rat for audiences of the '50s and every TV generation since. --By Richard Corliss
...Four: Lever again readies his harpoon but realizes he has the wrong target: "It was the biggest rat I've ever seen...