Last fall, three students at the University of Wisconsin– Platteville got into trouble for wearing “Three Blind Mice” Halloween costumes — because the school’s Bias Incident Team said ...

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But even before the age of cinema, television, and theme parks, mice had entered the cultures of most people. In the English-speaking world, they have come down through the ages in the form of nursery ...