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...Plate is an inauspicious-looking platter that rests in semi-obscurity outside the Union reading room. One wouldn't think that a hunt for this plate would cook the veins of a junior prefect...
There is, however, an important difference. Uranus is based on a novel by Marcel Ayme, not quite a Nazi apologist but by no means an oppositionist either. He wrote his book as a protest against the communist-led witch hunt for collaborators that followed the war. The film makes the case against the totalitarian intolerance of empowered Stalinism -- in French practice it often amounted to a settling of personal scores -- with persuasive force...
Maybe it wasn't such a good idea after all. Procter & Gamble brass thought they had a right, based on an obscure Ohio law, to use local authorities in their hunt for corporate leaks. What they didn't foresee was that the company would come out looking so bad. After two insider-sourced stories saying P&G's food division was troubled appeared in the Wall Street Journal last June, P&G complained to Cincinnati police, who examined hundreds of thousands of local phone records to see who called the home and office of Alecia Swasy, who wrote the articles...
...decades ago, big-game hunters, not researchers, pursued polar bears from the air and on the ground. A thousand carcasses a year littered the Arctic. The number of ice bears dwindled, and there was worldwide concern that the animal might be hunted to extinction. Today the bears' recovery is one of the success stories of conservation. Worldwide, polar bears now number as least 20,000, all of which are protected by a 1976 international agreement. Alaska has 3,000 to 5,000 polar bears, and only the state's Native Americans can hunt them -- and strictly for subsistence purposes...
...Hunt's complaint was echoed by others who had to carry their luggage up several flights of stairs. "I can't believe it's on the fourth floor," said Keltie L. Hays '95, as she trekked up to her Grays Hall room for the first time. "I guess we'll get in shape...