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...than having innocuous, largely accurate statements qualified by phrases like, ‘This subject needs more study but some researchers think it may be true that...’ misconstrued by radicals with an agenda to push! To thank you for your blessing, I shall sacrifice a billy goat...

Author: By Jason L. Lurie, | Title: The Devil and Larry Summers | 3/2/2005 | See Source »

...Kenya felt that “Mau Mau adherents did not belong to the human race,” claims Elkins. She compares the vilification of Jews with settlers’ characterizations of Mau Mau. These European settlers described the important Mau Mau initiation oath—which involved goat intestines, blood-drinking, the eating of raw flesh, and so on—as “bestial” and un-Christian. I must confess that I do not understand the zinger in her argumentation. Lest anyone forget, Mau Mau was a violent movement whose initiation oath included nearly...

Author: By Travis R. Kavulla, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: With Study of Mau Mau, Prof Creates Masterpiece | 2/24/2005 | See Source »

Such beneficiaries of the dog’s daring deeds include Otis, a pet-store owner played by a ballad-crooning Dave Matthews, whose audience consists of parrots, rabbits, and the occasional goat. As the movie’s sole instrument for bringing in the teenage masses, Matthews’ character is, appropriately, depicted as the “magic man”, whose music eventually brings a wandering Winn-Dixie home...

Author: By Julie Y. Zhou, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Because of Winn-Dixie Review | 2/18/2005 | See Source »

Such beneficiaries of the dog’s daring deeds include Otis, a pet-store owner played by a ballad-crooning Dave Matthews, whose audience consists of parrots, rabbits, and the occasional goat. As the movie’s sole instrument for bringing in the teenage masses, Matthews’ character is, appropriately, depicted as the “magic man”, whose music eventually brings a wandering Winn-Dixie home...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NO HEADLINE | 2/18/2005 | See Source »

...televised address, referenced the film?s famous scene - of President George W. Bush, in a Florida school room, flummoxed by a whispered word of the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center - by charging that Bush ?was more interested in listening to the child?s story about the goat rather than worry about what was happening to the Towers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Old Feeling: The Year in Docu-politics | 12/20/2004 | See Source »

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