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...doesn't, and despite having many years of experience over the British superband, the Harvard Crimson could not manage the same graceful falls that made us all laugh when John wound up on his rump...
...misbehaved, balking before entering the starting gate and then bucking and snorting his way back to the paddock after crossing the wire. Last week, he looked disagreeable by refusing to run an early-morning workout at Churchill, then bucking and throwing his exercise rider before laying down on his rump in the middle of the track a few days later...
...trend that started perhaps a million years ago. As Richard Wrangham, professor of anthropology at Harvard, points out, "Most mammals lose interest in sex outside a restricted mating period. For a female chimpanzee, copulation is confined to the times when she has a pink swelling on her rump. Outside those lusty periods, she would never think of trying to seduce a male, and he'd be horrified at the thought. But humans have taken a much more persistent view of sexual possibilities, probably since they first evolved as a species...
Simple as it may seem to carve Kosovo up, doing so could tilt the balance of power in the Balkans. A British diplomat was worried last week that a "rump Albanian Kosovo" would be just the kind of undernourished state that would unify Albanians in countries such as Macedonia, Greece and Montenegro. That could trigger a push for a Greater Albanian state that would include parts of several nations--a one-way ticket to chaos...
...make a website for it. Penn looks most frighteningly and convincingly insane at this point, even compared to the histrionics of other scenes. The obsession the note holds for him reminds one of starving or parched cartoon characters for whom everything they lay eyes on turns into a rump roast or bottle to be uncorked...