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...elegant, fur-clad woman sports a bloody animal paw worn as an earring and a steel trap as a brooch. Her picture is accompanied by this warning: THE LEG HOLD TRAP -- FOR ANIMALS THAT DON'T GET STRANGLED, BEATEN, GASSED OR ELECTROCUTED. That poster is part of a campaign by Britain's animal lovers to publicize the inhumane manner in which many fur coats are produced...
Paul does not personally blame the elderly. Few young people do, even when they sense, as they read the newspapers or go shopping for a house, that they are walking into a trap. Who is going to protect young families, they wonder, from an economic system that is eroding their living standards? Or a health system that promises at least partial care for the elderly but guarantees nothing for families with sick children? Or a political system that allows communities to outlaw residents under 19 to ensure peace and quiet -- and reduce school taxes at the same time...
Chirac's status as a center-right Premier under a leftist head of state, an arrangement known in France as cohabitation, was a controversial first-time experiment. Barre had opposed it as a "trap," and never fails to include the period of Chirac's premiership when he lists France's alleged economic ills. On balance, however, Chirac probably comes out ahead on the issue. Cohabitation has proved popular with most voters. Moreover, Chirac's position allows him to accompany Mitterrand to such highly public occasions as last month's Anglo-French summit meeting in London...
While reading Jonathan Moses's article entitled, "A Solution For Israel", in The Crimson of January 20th, I was very distressed to find that a fellow Jew had fallen into the current media trap set by the Western press. Admittedly with constant photos of Israeli soldiers firing at seemingly harmless Palestinian children, it is hard to see the other side, yet I had hoped that the educated among us would not succumb to the unending, unfair, anti-Israel journalism of the past six weeks. To begin to understand the Israeli position, all we have to do is imagine what...
Indeed, many of the first adventurers hurried on to the Rocky Mountains to trap beaver. Gold seekers cursed the great weathers of the grass country that seared them in summer and drove iced spikes into their souls in winter. Had they looked down, they would have seen earth that in 1900, only a half-century later, would produce 1 1/2 times the wealth put out by all the world's gold mines. But coaxing wealth from sun and soil and water is a process of patience and presence. Nomads have little understanding of that life, and movement is much...