Word: feasting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Thanksgiving has passed, but the Feast continues. Freshman Allison Feaster, that...
...turkeys had graced the emblem of our great seals instead of eagles, we might not enjoy their succulent flesh every year in November. We don't exactly feast on bald eagles, who weren't always an endangered species, on any special day. But maybe bald eagles taste really good, and we just don't know. Here at Dartboard, we're pretty darn sure they taste like chicken...
...from readers (many predictably indignant), the fourth largest mail response to any story this year. That article was based on a current book that is also stirring debate among readers and scientists: The Moral Animal: Evolutionary Psychology and Everyday Life (Pantheon; $27.50). The New York Times called it "a feast of great thinking and writing about the most profound issues there...
While the poor feast on hope, the elite who live up in the cool hills of Petionville and control 40% of the economy are preparing for nothing short of apocalypse. "They look at Aristide and what do they see?" says a businessman. "They see their cook, their gardener, their maid." The rich have stepped up private patrols of their flower-fringed villas and sleep with pistols beneath their beds. "Everybody is afraid," says Raymond Roy, president of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry. "Aristide's people can destroy everything in three hours...
...committee considered several suggestions: "Our closets fit two comfortably," "We bring new meaning to the 'screw your roommate' dance," "We gladly feast on those who would suppress us" and "We are what you pretend...