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...Give Them a Home I was interested to read about the flourishing buffalo population, but the author could not resist reminding us that the species Bison bison is not a true buffalo [March 26]. I have been hearing this for about 65 years. I do not understand the zeal for calling the animals bison rather than buffalo when similar misidentities are usually ignored. For example, the pronghorn antelope is really not an antelope, and the jackrabbit is not a rabbit. Let's give bison a rest and let the buffalo roam-along with other common usages. Russell Schofiel, Glendale, Arizona...
...allowed him into my house, but only with close supervision. As he grew, I curtailed his house privileges, both for his safety and that of my house. Gentle-seeming or not, an adult bison is 2,000 lbs. of wild animal and sharp horns. I caution your readers to understand that bison are not pets and should be handled only by experienced people with adequate facilities. Roger Brooks, Mancos, Colorado...
...famous multimillionaire really be a spokeswoman for the down-home art of making your own clothes? Stewart does, at least, understand the impulse driving so many young women to assert their individuality with one-of-a kind, homemade clothes. In 1961 Stewart was named one of Glamour's 10 Best Dressed College Girls. "One of the reasons I stood out," she recalls, "was because I sewed all my own clothes." Now that's an endorsement...
...Pound Professor of Law Roberto M. Unger, who teaches the class, did not return a request for comment. Godelia said he did not understand why he was asked to leave...
...believe to the extent that we can claim anything to be a universal category, the study of the past is one such category,” Hamburger told the Faculty. An explanatory note to his amendment argued that “it is impossible to understand culture and structures of belief” without discussing “the historical traditions that inform them...