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...California gnatcatcher, a warbler-like songbird, nests along the coastal sage land in Southern California's Orange County, which happens to be some of the most expensive real estate on earth. Last July, when the state fish and game commission announced that it would consider listing the gnatcatcher as an endangered species, developers bulldozed hundreds of acres of the birds' remaining habitat so that the land would be exempt from any future protection. In September the fish and game commission, bowing to construction-industry arguments that protecting the gnatcatcher would cost the state $20 billion and 200,000 jobs, decided...
...good luck. They usually counsel winners to get a good tax accountant, an unlisted telephone number and a veneer of skepticism. Virginia's lottery gives each winner an advice video. In it, David Snyder of Lynchburg, a $10.9 million winner in 1990 and a dedicated community worker, offers the sage counsel he received from his pastor: Don't have a guilty conscience about rejecting pleas. You cannot cure all the world's poverty. But you can help some of the poor. Snyder has made Meals on Wheels a favorite charity...
...first words of advice I heard upon arriving at Harvard were, "Don't comp The Crimson." Like a lot of other first-years, I foolishly ignored this sage advice. Believe me, I paid for my folly...
...namesake, the great sage Hillel, said, "If I am for myself alone, what am I?" We continue to work with the BSA and other minority groups to address issues of sensitivity on this campus. I hope that all will recognize those efforts as strong, firm stands for respect and pluralism. Daniel J. Libenson '92 Chair, Harvard/Radcliffe Hillel
...Taoist adage tells of a sage who dreamed he was a butterfly and then awoke to find himself wondering who was doing the dreaming. Might he not be the butterfly imagining it was a philosopher? Zhang has reproduced that pretty reverie, combining it with Kafka's Metamorphosis and shading it with The Fly. The question is now threefold: Is the narrator a person dreaming he is a cockroach or a cockroach dreaming it is a contemporary citizen of the People's Republic, or is there no difference between them...