Should we embrace our inner serpent? For Chinese people welcoming the lunar New Year today, snakes have positive attributes as well as scary and despicable ones.
Billions celebrate Year of the Snake

Glossary
Expulsion - The action of forcing someone to leave an organisation.
Lunar Calendar - A calendar that uses the phases of the moon to mark the passage of time.
Elusive - Difficult to find.
Enigmatic - Mysterious or difficult to understand.
Venom - A poisonous substance secret by such animals as snakes, spiders and scorpians.