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Citadel stalwarts were deeply wounded. Said retired Lieut. Colonel T. Nugent Courvoisie, 77, immortalized as the Citadel's harsh taskmaster, the "Bear," in Pat Conroy's best seller The Lords of Discipline, last Wednesday: "That girl says she wants to come in and be one of the boys. But the minute she comes in, the atmosphere changes. She ruins the whole concept of getting everyone together and working on the same team." In fact, there may be some truth to claims by other traditionalists that once Faulkner is in, rather than playing by the Citadel's rules...
...Bear Courvoisie may be a little old for the bar scene, but he can be reached at home. "It's like the second Fourth of July around here," he allows. And, to a friend calling with congratulations: "Thank you. Thank God. Thank everybody else." The world that made him what he is is safe for another...
Investigator Terry Grosz is screening a snuff film. The quality is poor, but the action is gruesomely clear: a group of hunters, accompanied by Doberman pinschers, is stalking a bear and her cub in the New Hampshire woods. The mother dies relatively quickly from her wounds; her cub is less lucky. "Get her with this!" shouts a man, and pulls out a crossbow. Suddenly the cub squeals; imbedded in its skull, as if in some ghastly Saturday-morning cartoon, is an arrow. The hunter takes his time reloading. Finally, with his second shot, the bear falls to the ground, where...
...video, taken in 1992 by a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service undercover agent, was later used to put the hunter in jail. Grosz, a 6-ft. 5-in. bear of a man who is an assistant regional director for law enforcement for the Fish and Wildlife Service, has seen the footage dozens of times in this Lakewood, Colorado, viewing room, yet he cannot control his sorrow, or his anger. His eyes still damp, he asks, "Did you see that? How they were killing the bears right in front of the camera? Those bastards...
...very sites designated for wildlife's preservation are becoming its abattoir, almost as if someone had let a serial killer into Noah's ark. Poachers haunt nearly half of America's 366 park areas, supplying animal parts to illegal traffickers who operate in at least 17 states. They supply bear paws as culinary delicacies and bear gallbladders as medicinal ingredients. Rare butterflies are netted for collectors around the world. Deer are decapitated to decorate homes. The illegal killing of animals is a $200 million-a-year business, with as much as $100 million of that amount for medicinal purposes...