Word: slaughtered
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...Tokyo, a ship-chartering firm. Sales of the meat are used solely to fund Japan's Institute of Cetacean Research (ICR), which conducts the studies. "The IWC convention stipulates that any by-product be processed and used," explains Hideki Moronuki of the Fisheries Agency. But independent scientists say the slaughter is wildly disproportionate to the research it produces...
...Brooks was going hard to the goal all day,” Samuelson added. “And when he goes hard, he’s tough to stop.” Widbin widened the margin just six minutes later, taking a pass from freshman Sam Slaughter for his second goal of the day. With 13:31 to play and Harvard playing in a man-up position, Widbin completed his hat trick with a goal off Calvert’s feed to give the Crimson an 8-5 lead. Senior defender Peter Doyle and Scholl rounded out the Crimson scoring...
...only symbolic. Harvard, however, has attracted media attention to the genocide, and its PetroChina divestment set a precedent followed by a number of other institutions, including Amherst College, Yale University, Stanford University, and recently the entire University of California system. Furthermore, the University’s profiting from slaughter contradicts every one of Harvard’s values. Even if divestment is only symbolic, it is still the right thing...
ANNE-MARIE SLAUGHTER Is the cause of freeing a people and pushing for progressive political and economic change in the most dangerous region in the world worth fighting and dying for? Undoubtedly. But has this war--with its disdain for allies and institutions, its willful blindness to any scenario other than easy victory and immediate democracy, and its planners' irresponsibility so deep as to be immoral in failing to protect the heritage, infrastructure and lives of a people who never asked for war--been worth it? Squandering lives and vast sums of money through a combination of arrogance and negligence...
...Slaughter is the dean of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University...