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Sometimes George Bush is at his dining room table in Kennebunkport, Me., looking beyond the rocky shore to the open water, and sometimes he is on his boat, casting for bluefish, when he wonders aloud about the new world order he must shape once the Iraqi confrontation plays out. He is looking beyond pure military matters...
That's the secret, really. Don't write out "TIME" in inch-high scrawl--it only brings out the sadist in us. Don't (Cliffies) write offers to come over and read aloud to us your illegible remarks--we can (officially) read anything and we may be married. Write on both sides of the page--single blue-book finals look like less work to grade, and win points. This chic, shaded calligraphic scripts so many are affecting lately is handsome, and is probably worth a good five extra if you can hack...
When he announced that the attendance total of 8450 had shattered the league attendance record, the 3000 or so fans in the stadium laughed. They actually laughed. One guy wondered aloud whether they were counting people in nearby houses...
Japan's Finance Minister wondered aloud whether the nation's declining birthrate might be caused by more women attending college -- and what could be done about the trend. Sharp protests and red-faced disavowals ensued...
That afternoon Roemer had read aloud a favorite passage from novelist John Fowles' book The Aristos: "In the whole, nothing is unjust. It may, to this or that individual, be unfortunate." So, in a sense, is capital punishment for both the condemned man and the Governor, who waited for word from Angola Prison that Dalton Prejean had died...