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...will share smokers' illegal-alien status. Cigarette users must huddle in the ragtag solidarity of their serene, intense habit. Defiantly, they say, "We look so cool, don't we, waving our wicked wands in the air. Our voices have the knowing, late-night duskiness of alto-sax jazz. We pack more fun into life because we know, better than all those who stare darts our way, how short life is. We are nature's bravados, medicine's death-row aesthetes." As the health magazines remind us, absolutely everything can kill you. So smokers figure they may as well...
...there some acrimony behind the scenes? Not quite, an unreliable source tells Dartboard. All those puns about the Provost being a "green" administrator weren't so far off. Green, says our source, was taken over by one of those pesky alien pod-people that seem to proliferate in the Yard this time of year. As we all know, the green gook that Harvard sprays all over the dirt is not, as the administrations claim, Hydraseed, but an anti-pod-person pesticide. But this year, they came a little early, and Provost Green was the first victim. President Rudenstine and staff...
...Explain the difference between a citizen and an alien...
Survival proved harder when he was sent to Sevenoaks School in Kent. "The place was alien and unattractive in every single one of its millions of details. A feeling of nausea stayed with me from the moment I got there until the moment I left. And there was the code of honor, so you never talk about your suffering. So you have to do it in silence. Or find a place where you can be on your own and scream." This is the voice of the actor-dramatist, who can both live in the moment of that schoolboy misery...
Nonetheless, Americans policy-makers should not romanticize the successes of other countries, and should question the wisdom of applying alien "solutions" to American problems. The same policies that produced enviable results in Germany and Japan have also caused significant problems...