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Talk about not wanting to share your bier. The unruly German ambassador to Spain threw the co-founder of Spain's Amnesty International chapter out of a Madrid Embassy party last month. "You are not invited here and are well known for sneaking into diplomatic parties," the ambassador cried as he jealously guarded his shnitzels from the Spanish human rights activist and personally saw that she was removed from the party.

The "woman scorned" was, in fact, invited to the party. She is a celebrity in Spain for having hidden Spanish Prime Minister-elect Felipe Gonzalez during the fascist rule of General Francisco Franco. She had been invited to the party by the Madrid office of Germany's Friedrich Ebert Foundation. Apparently, the German ambassador did not realize this.

Spain is the least of German Foreign Minister Klaus Winkel's problems, though. The ambassador to France has been caught several times attempting to take over his host nation. Silly Germans...

Let them eat chicken

Can there be anything more exciting than this? The world anxiously watched last week as chickens triumphantly returned to Hong Kong for the first time since the bird flu scare. At least 140 journalists and 60 news organizations flocked to Hong Kong for the return of the fowl.

Due to the large number of bored reporters, the government ordered them to pool their information. Overall, the Government Information Services gave positive reviews of the coverage. Apparently, reporters truly captured the mood of the chickens' brave return.

Over 38,000 birds made the treacherous journey from the mainland into the open arms of Hong Kong residents. With tears in their eyes and knives in their hands, citizens danced in the streets and sang, "I feel like chicken tonight, like chicken tonight." They had to wait another day for nuggets, though, since the chickens were kept in quarantine for blood tests. It was truly an amazing scene--hooray for fowl!

--Compiled by Michael Buckstein from The Arab News and The

South China Morning Post

YALE INDEX
1. Number of recent studies conducted by Yale Economics Professor William Nordhaus that calculated the "societal cost of children"	1
2. Number of said studies that were "more theoretical than practical"	1
3. Number of people who are surprised that the findings of an economics study are "more theoretical than practical"	0
4. Number of economics majors at Yale	580
5. Number of economics majors seen putting their power suits to practical use on any given day this semester to land a job which will pay them $60,000 after graduation	145
6. Number of people who find Ethics, Politics, and Economics to be oxymoronic	580
7. Number of EP&E majors who will go on to law school, where they will forget all about their ethics, talk bull about politics, and think only of the economics of how much money they will make after law school	250
8. Number of morons who were turned away from the EP&E major	2
9. Number of said morons who are bitter that their econ-major roommate will be pulling in $60,000 after graduation and their EP&E friends will be at law school talking bull about politics while they sit at home writing the Index	2
10. EP&E?! But you told me you tested negative!	2

--Compiled by Kevin Irwin and Jeremy Rissi

Sources: 1, 2) YDN 2/17/98; 3, 4, 5, 6) Yale Herald Commencement Issue 5/26/97; 7) Ben McGrath, SY '99, intramural hockey co-captain; 8, 9, 10) Index staff

LIZ OLINER/YH Chubb Fellow and U.S. Senator Phil Gramm (R-Tex.) addresses an attentive audience of Yale students at the Law School on Thurs., Feb. 19.

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