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The polls have closed, and last week's winner was the Raleigh News & Observer, whose warning about the potential offensiveness of one of the world's greatest works of art provoked so much mirth in these quarters. As soon as we figure out where to send it, a year's subscription to Beaver Shots will be on its way to the paper.


Today's nominee comes from the Times. It's the heartbreaking tale of Juliet the carriage horse, whose tragic demise came, as the paper has it, "inelegantly." Let Corey Kilgannon paint you a picture:

She lay lifeless as the day shift of carriage drivers hitched up their horses and clopped out to work. Only Mr. Provenzano and a coterie of skinny cats seemed interested in her at the West Side Livery stable on West 38th Street near 11th Avenue. Never again would she come home to her third floor stall, with the window looking out on Midtown's skyscrapers and high rises, and enjoy her hay and salt lick.

What? Crying? No, it's just allergies. Excuse us for a minute.

For Central Park Carriage Horse, Death Arrives Inelegantly [NYT]