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Your article espousing the slaughter of goats was repellent. Vegetarianism is advancing because it's irrefutably beneficial for the planet. Soy, nuts, beans, flax and grains can easily supplant animal protein. Spare the goats and enjoy some oats. Brien Comerford, GLENVIEW...
...growing number of Jamaican citizens and officials, in fact, are counting on their world-conquering young sprinters - none of whom has failed a drug test, and who often speak out against the gunplay at home - to supplant self-styled "roughneck" singers as role models, and help reduce the country's horrific levels of violent crime. "These athletes can speak to the young people in our more troubled communities, especially since many of them come from those communities," says Jamaican sports writer Carole Beckford, author of Keeping Jamaica's Sport on Track. "We can't wait for them to come home...
...since then devolved into an insipid mash-up of compromises that is essentially a redux of the old Core. A scant 37 Gen Ed courses have been approved for the 2008-2009 academic year, and only seven more for the following fall. Despite being set to supplant the long-criticized Core curriculum by 2009, a mere 60 proposals have even been submitted, many of which are nothing more than adapted Core courses. Meanwhile, continuing efforts to get professors to adapt their courses to the dying Core system have proven to be largely inadequate...
...committee has also approved several new courses in the last several weeks: “Germany in the World: 1600-2000”; “Literature Against Enlightenments”; and “Human Rights: A Philosophical Introduction.” Gen Ed requirements will supplant the Core for the class of 2013. —Staff writer Bonnie J. Kavoussi contributed to the reporting of this story...
...spoke of his admiration for Brown and declined an invitation to say whether he'd prefer to do business with Downing Street's current incumbent or with David Cameron, the Conservative leader who hopes to supplant Brown at the next parliamentary elections, due before the summer of 2010 and predicted to take place next year. Neither McCain nor Cameron have been reticent about praising each other in the past, with the older man once fulsomely comparing the 41-year-old Briton to John F. Kennedy. McCain was a star speaker at the Conservatives' 2006 annual conference in the seaside resort...