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...with her strict Catholic regimen, with a gravity that could only be a child's. Goodwin's recollection of her First Confession is perhaps the most endearing scene in the book. "I wished harm to Allie Reynolds [the Yankee pitcher]," she tells the priest. "Yes, I wished that Enos Slaughter of the Cards would break his ankle, that Phil Rizzuto of the Yanks would fracture a rib, and that Alvin Dark of the Giants would hurt his knee...I wished all these injuries would go away once the baseball season ended." The priest, who it seems also loved baseball, gives...
...KILLERS? Most of the butchery is blamed on the Armed Islamic Group, an extremist splinter faction. Islamists claim that to sabotage any compromise, hard-liners in the military-backed regime have supported some of the attacks. Unemployment topping 35% has helped produce nihilistic young thugs prepared to slaughter. Last week the Salvation Front declared a truce, but the killing is unlikely...
Readings include Animal to Edible, which looks at the tension between carnivorism and discomfort with slaughter; Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History, a look at how sugar has changed capitalism, industry, work habits and eating habits; and Golden Arches East: McDonald's in East Asia, edited by Watson...
Relentless slaughter and overfishing will drive sharks, the top predators in the sea, to the brink of extinction [ENVIRONMENT, Aug. 11]. If the scientific community and the world at large do not act quickly enough to reverse the trend, there will be an ecological catastrophe. We humans have come to be "nature's most fearsome predators," but what will happen when there is hardly anything left to keep the ecosystem in balance? FRED CESAR Fort Lauderdale...
...show is a dignified call for help as well as an assertion of past cultural achievement. After 30 years of civil war and the genocidal madness of the Khmer Rouge led by Pol Pot, Cambodia's very name reeks of slaughter. The West needs to be reminded of its immense cultural heritage, and of the struggle--against all odds--to preserve it. Only a handful of Western historians and curators, mainly in France and America, are experts in ancient Cambodian art, and its fate within Cambodia for the past few decades has skirted catastrophe. Much of it has been looted...