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...dolphin can sell for as much as $150,000. In Taiji, the public is welcome to watch the selection of dolphins by trainers. What most people aren't allowed to see is what happens afterward, when the ones that didn't make the cut are moved to the next rockbound inlet over and stabbed to death by fishermen. It's legal to fish for dolphins in Japan, and the filmmakers estimate that 23,000 dolphins are "harvested" there annually. The dilemma faced by activists, including O'Barry, Greenpeace and, ultimately, the director of The Cove, Louie Psihoyos...
...from the center of campus at tiny Hillsdale College is a kiosk displaying these lines from St. Paul: LET US BEHAVE PROPERLY...NOT IN CAROUSING AND DRUNKENNESS, NOT IN SEXUAL PROMISCUITY AND SENSUALITY. The words are supposed to remind the 1,150 students of their school's rockbound commitment to morality, probity and restraint. In the 28 years that George C. Roche III was Hillsdale's voluble president, that commitment made him a hero to American conservatives--that and his decision 14 years ago not to accept any federal funding or allow his students to accept federal loans, in order...
MUSKIE. Clearly most stunned by the results was Edmund Muskie-and all of the professionals in press and politics who had seen him as almost a cinch for the nomination only two short weeks before. He had been the front runner, the sincere, often eloquent Abe Lincoln with the rockbound Maine integrity -who contrasted so sharply with the expedient, unlovable Richard Nixon. The image campaign urged everyone to "trust Muskie." But when he turned weepy and peevish and no one could figure precisely what to trust him on, that image turned as fuzzy as Lincoln's beard. By ignoring...
...rockbound coast Is threatened by the super Tankers disgorging crude oil On the tide...
...DARK SHADOWS (ABC, 4-4:30 p.m.). A new daytime serial all about a young governess and a ten-year-old boy who live in a brooding, 19th century castle on a precipitous cliff above the raging sea on the rockbound coast of Maine. Premiere...