Word: wolfs
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Given the unsettled state of the environmental movement and the vengeful mood of its adversaries, a party thrown last weekend at Chico Hot Springs, Montana, was a good bet not to happen. But it did. The Wolf Fund, a tiny activist group set up in 1986 by wildlife biologist Renee Askins, 27, declared victory, gave a few cheers and disbanded. Askins had moved to Moose, Wyoming, in 1981 with the idea of helping get gray wolves re-established in Yellowstone National Park. The process, she thought, might take two or three years. It took a decade more than that...
...opposition remains. A wolf released in February in central Idaho was shot last month, supposedly because it had killed a calf. Not true; investigation showed, as Askins says without much surprise, "the wolf was framed." She and other wolf activists realized the most likely cause of death for Yellowstone wolves would be gunfire from die-hard wolf haters. So they took a risk, listing the Yellowstone and Idaho wolves not as fully protected endangered animals, which would have provoked retaliation, but as an experimental population that can be controlled if it is troublesome. Some ranchers were reassured, and the plan...
...best piece in the show, both horribly vivid and weirdly distanced, is the room-size Carousel, 1988. Four motor-driven arms swing on a pivot. From each hangs what appears to be the flayed carcass of a deer or a wolf. (They are, in fact, hard plastic-foam molds.) These casually suspended mock bodies are covered in graphite paint, and they drag on the floor, producing an unremittingly irksome scraping noise and leaving a silvery circular trail behind them, round and round. You don't feel empathy with the dead animals--the molds are too blank to evoke much more...
President Clinton says he took some comfort from a new book by one of theVietnamwar's chief architects. Asked by CNN White House correspondent Wolf Blitzer whether he felt vindicated by former President Defense Secretary Robert McNamara's statement this week that the war was a terrible mistake, Clinton replied, "Yes, I do; I know that sounds self-serving, but I do." The conversation occurred off-camera Thursday after CNN taped an interview. White House press secretary Mike McCurry confirmed the exchange today, adding that McNamara's admission "vindicates the views of millions of Americans, including President Clinton, that...
...hundreds of our closest friends, we are supposed to be learning how to see the forest and not the trees. Instead, like Little Red Riding Hood on her way to Granny's house, we usually find ourselves lost in the woods and pursued by the Big Bad Wolf of academic myopia. Looking at the individual tree, like Hindu Myth, Image and Pilgrimage (Literature and Arts C-18) or Jewish Life in Eastern Europe (Foreign Cultures 56,) certainly has its place. Yet, if the Core is to succumb to such overspecialization, it is even more important that the Core provide...