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...competition attracted impassioned complaints from animal-rights groups, but Nucla was not fazed by the protests. When Governor Roy Romer asked the town to cancel the festive slaughter, Mayor John Vanderpool replied, "Buzz off." And when 40 or so humane activists showed up in Nucla to yell at the gunslingers ("It takes a big man to kill a little prairie dog!"), townsfolk had a ready retort: "Eat some lettuce!" After Nucla counted the money visitors had pumped into the town ($75,000), it was decided to plan an even bigger shoot next year...
...laws prohibiting desecration of their flags, and in many nations that do not (such as China), it may not be wise to test the issue. Even in the U.S., as Bush noted last week, "the law books are full of restrictions on free speech." It is not permissible to yell fire falsely in a crowded theater, as Oliver Wendell Holmes pointed out, and likewise it could be illegal to ignite a flag in one. Yet according to Duke University law school professor Walter Dellinger, "the flag amendment would be the first real instance in which political expression is being suppressed...
...some things simply demand more time. When a patient cannot be saved, Dr. Bourland says, "you have to go tell the family that their loved one died, and you know that you only have about 120 seconds to do it -- to get them to cry, to get them to yell and scream, to get them calm enough to give them all the facts so they won't wonder later what we did to try to save him. But I've only 120 seconds to do all that, because if I don't get out of there, then three other people...
...Krumrie--a Bengal lineman--broke his legin three places in the Super Bowl," Williamscontinued. "Whereas some people yell 'doctor' whenthey get the smallest cramp in their leg, Krumriedidn't make a sound. He just looked at me, flat onhis back, and said 'Don't give...
This has not diminished Carril's insatiable desire to win. He keeps a projector and game films both in his office and at home. Without fail, he will yell at a player on the screen to slide, say, two steps to his left or his man is going to drive past him for a basket. Then he yells at the image of the player for his failure to respond to his command. "The really funny thing," says Kit Mueller, who has attended many such sessions in the course of his education, "is that he will rewind the film...