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...walks: studies identified many of the waterfowl poachers in Wisconsin as white-collar executives, while Missouri's deer poachers are largely unemployed workers. Some claim to be modern-day Robin Hoods, engaged in libertarian protest against Big Government. This amuses the rangers. The poachers' major motivation, says Grosz, is "ego and greed...
...Ego inspires the off-season trophy hunters to employ off-season guides. "We've busted folks who have hired guides and said, 'I'll give you $5,000 every time I pull the trigger,' " says Grosz. Other clients, lazier or more timid, are content to order up contract killings. The current black-market price for one ready-to-mount bighorn sheep can go as high as $10,000. Grizzly bears fetch $25,000. Eagles and some of the rarer butterflies bring $1,000 apiece. Meanwhile, despite the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora...
...lightning speed -- Carrey does with his body. He walks in sections, as if he had been pulled apart and then basted back together. He can freeze into an exclamation point or, doing his trademark hula, go all loose and noodle-y. Imagine a goyish Jerry Lewis with less ego and more self-esteem and you have Carrey. Crossbreed Lewis' The Nutty Professor with Batman and you have The Mask, with Carrey breathing life into director Charles Russell's tatty fable...
...Paul's obsession with being No. 1 will not be a good thing in the environment around Cambridge. Because once he gets here, he will find amazingly brilliant people. Published authors. Award-winning musicians. Unbelievable scientists. Harvard specializes in knocking down your ego, in letting you know that you may be smart, but there is always someone smarter...
...Hanks brings life to this original character, and after his Academy Award for "Philadelphia," Hanks has finally come into his own. (Of course, I couldn't help picturing him with his alter-ego Peter Schaffer from Bosom Buddies, but Hanks does a magnificent job in this film...