Indeed Lawler believes he has found an explanation for the legend of the basilisk, a terrifying serpent said to hatch from an egg laid by a cockerel.
The North, accusing America of the tactics of a "serpent", said it wants a promise by America not to attack it to be ratified by Congress because it does not trust the Bush administration.Pakistan claimed to have shot down a pilotless Indian spy plane in Kashmir.
Hollywood films such as "On the Waterfront" idealised "superpadres"; Catholic publicists like Bishop Fulton Sheen bestrode prime-time television much as Jay Leno does today.The perils of successBut there has been a serpent in this paradise: assimilation.
They have found the serpent in hunter-gatherer Eden, the savage in the noble savage.
The serpent is eventually slain by a knight holding a shield that bears a fork-tailed lion crest, the Czech symbol.
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon's Robotics Institute are working on an artificial serpent, originally conceived at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California.
But then a serpent slithers into their crooked paradise: an over-eager FBI agent (Bradley Cooper) with a tight perm and an anger-management problem.
The battles over race and culture have left voters with a much clearer idea of what and whom they are voting for.Black, white and red all overThere are also grounds for arguing that race has become a less poisonous serpent in American politics—something that Mr Thurmond's own career shows.
But it also brought great responsibilities: "You shall be as gods," the serpent said to Adam and Eve, as the story is told to Christians, "knowing good and evil .The Koran's version has none of this.
A 16th-century Aztec mosaic of a double-headed serpent (pictured above) exemplifies the way cultures have long been connected through the movement of people and ideas.
Mr Putin's battle with a many-headed serpent represents his promised victory over Western sanctions, the severed head of America lying at his feet; his capture of the hind of Ceryneia is an allegory for Russia's successful bid for the Sochi Olympics.Even so, the exhibit's organiser, a 25-year-old graduate student, Mikhail Antonov, seems earnest in his admiration.
