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...Greene, 54, a makeup consultant at the chic Henri Bendel store. Garcia found that her hair had a high copper content; he decreed she must stop drinking her usual 16 cups of tea a day. Now, Greene says, "my skin glows. If a dragon came in, I'd slay...
...looks like Financial Vice President Thomas O'Brien has his hands full. Asked recently by a Crimson reporter what he has been working on of late. O'Brien replied. "I've got a lot of dragons to slay right now and I don't want to talk with you until I have some dead bodies." O'Brien declined to identify what sort of dragons he's grappling with...
...regarded more highly and thus protected. Earlier this month, Judge Miles Lord vigorously rejected this convoluted argument. Said he: "The wolf has long been depicted in story and song as a mysterious menace to man's existence . . . But Congress has now mandated that each person who would slay the wolf must stay his hand. An increased "war on wolves" in northern Minnesota will not be permitted under the law." In the North Country, some claimed they could hear howls of delight...
When practiced at certain universities, heckling to silence and expel the intruder achieves a tribal quality; it becomes a gesture of group solidarity, a way that certain zealots in the academic capsule reaffirm the received wisdom of their tribe and symbolically slay the stranger. As such, it is after all a comparatively harmless practice. If academe were more profoundly primitive, undergraduates might have to initiate themselves into the group by, say, ritually mutilating a Republican...
...society is not unprotected just because it lacks weekly or daily executions. "The issue is not whether we slay murderers or free them," notes University of Michigan Law Professor Richard Lempert. "It is whether we send them to their death or to prison for life." Prison is a far more manageable weapon than death, and the U.S. is not at all hesitant to put criminals behind bars: the population there has doubled since 1970, to 400,000. "One trouble with the death penalty," says Henry Schwarzschild, an A.C.L.U. official, "is that it makes 25 years seem like a ight sentence...