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...green canyons known as the Western Ghats that stretches from Bombay to Kerala?has followed the sad but familiar tale of modern development. In the last decade man drowned many of the forests behind vast new dams, cut down what timber remained and hunted to extinction the wild deer, boar and sheep that are the leopards' preferred prey. In the time it took to fill a reservoir, the leopards of the Ghats found themselves in the open, homeless and hungry. You'd expect a few attacks from these desperate creatures. Then you'd expect them to disappear...
...guns. But there is hunting with hounds either on foot or on horseback in Ireland, Belgium, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain and Italy. In France, where politicians antagonize rural folk at their peril, there are 440 hound packs - more than in Britain - to hunt everything from deer to foxes to boar; parties, parades and church masses are staged to cheer the hunts on. Says Yves Lecocq, secretary-general of the Brussels-based E.U. Federation of Associations for Hunting and Conservation, "The only country to ban hunting with hounds in Europe in recent history has been Nazi Germany - Hitler thought it cruel...
...Hogwarts staff--Dumbledore (Richard Harris), McGonagall (Maggie Smith), Hagrid (Robbie Coltrane) and Snape (who else? Alan Rickman, in Hamlet's drab garb)--have the requisite majesty or malevolence. The special effects are spiffy too. The Golden Snitch has a mischievous mind of its own, and that three-headed boar could guard bin Laden's cave...
...telling callers to prank-call Geraldo b) castrating and killing a wild boar c) fondling the Pets.com puppet d) comparing his show...
...Pearson triumphed; having won local council approval, his Aniane vineyard awaits the green light from national authorities. Today Mondavi's man in southern France can sip pastis with the hunters who were among his staunchest opponents, fearing that Mondavi would destroy the habitat of their favorite prey, the wild boar. It's a tribute to the 38-year-old's soft-spoken perseverance. "If he were an Indian, he'd be called Crafty Fox," says local winemaker Pierre Clavel with a smile...