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Consider too the sharks: apex predators, lords of the food chain, inspiration for scary stories. A few years ago, I dived off the coast of Costa Rica in a marine preserve where, supposedly, all life was protected. Every day, looking down, I saw the sea bottom carpeted with the corpses of whitetip reef sharks, grotesquely stripped of their fins by poachers who had slashed them off to sell to the soup markets of Asia and had cast the living animals back into the sea to die. Around the world, the numbers of some shark species have declined as much...
...This is the greedy shark that eats the capital that you put into Harvard," LaBella said...
...protesters cheered as a third janitor, blindfolded, beat at the shark, sending peanuts flying into the crowd...
...students and janitors led chants outside Holyoke, LaBella rode the elevator up to the seventh-floor offices of the Harvard labor relations department to deliver the subpoena and the battered shark...
...then presented the paper and the pinyata to a room of startled secretaries. As he quickly walked out, he deposited the shark on top of a row of file cabinets...