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In elementary school, we all endured a standard science experiment: If you shut your eyes and pinch your nose closed, can you tell any difference in the taste of a slice of apple, of carrot, of pear?
Professor Bernard, who teaches at Springfield College, became intrigued with the lyrics to the Christmas song, The Twelve Days of Christmas , when he first noticed the virtual redundancy of partridge and perdrix , the Latin word for the bird, leading him to surmise that the words in a pear tree could well have been Norman French for `en a perdrix,' or words to that effect.
Obligingly, the author of the article, Robert Pear, did not find it necessary to remind readers that the former chairman is on parole after a stretch in prison.
The piece is by the NYT 's long-time social policy reporter, Robert Pear, but it will be interesting to see how the Times handles any subsequent coverage of this by its other main poor people reporter, Jason DeParle, whose wife is the administration's Medicaid expansion point person.
The Mexica Aztecs traveled south under the guidance of the god Huitzilopochtli, who advised them to look for an eagle perched on a prickly pear cactus, devouring a serpent.