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...avenge the loss, the Crimson women came back to slaughter Connecticut College, 10-2. More a contest of team depth than of skill, Harvard overpowered the Camels' defense from the outset. Of the 10 Harvard goals, freshman Liz Anderson and sophomore driver Arianne Cohen, also a Crimson editor, contributed seven. Sophomore driver Kate Callaghan also came away from the game with an imposing total of six steals...
...outbreak of foot and mouth disease showed up last week on farms in the Netherlands and Ireland, while a second case was identified in France. When veterinarians identified the disease in cows and goats at two farms near the eastern town of Olst, Dutch agriculture authorities ordered the slaughter of 20,000 animals within a 1-km radius. The source of infection was traced to cattle imported from Ireland, which confirmed its first cases in County Louth north of Dublin. In Britain dozens of cases were confirmed daily and 514 cases had been certified by week's end. Farmers' gloom...
Person of the Week MEATY ISSUES As foot-and-mouth disease sweeps Britian, Prime Minister Tony Blair has a full plate of issues to chew over. Should he vaccinate herds rather than send them to slaughter? And should he delay May's general election?rather than send distracted voters to the polls...
Jacky talks about killing him, slitting his throat from 3 till 9 and hanging him upside down so the blood drains out of him the way it ran from the baby pigs they used to slaughter in her village before a funeral feast. He deserves it, really, she says, for his freeloading, for his hanging around, for how he just stands there, spindly legged and narrow chested and pimple faced with his big yearning eyes, begging for another...
...Francis Gagnon, the arrival of foot-and- mouth disease in France has been a saga of bureaucracy and needless slaughter. On March 16, some 40 armed police and 18 veterinary workers in white coats and rubber boots showed up at 6:45 a.m. on his farm in the Burgundy village of Tannerre-en-Puisaye. After police sealed off the farm, the men in white entered his barn and systematically injected a fast-acting poison into more than 833 of his sheep, many of them newborn lambs and heavily pregnant ewes. "No one could move without permission," says Gagnon. "Everyone...