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...Ay, there's the rub. A coach is expected to win at Notre Dame. Win a lot -- while still putting academics first and observing the NCAA rules of conduct. "If you keep the rules," the Rev. Theodore Hesburgh, then Notre Dame's president, told Holtz at his final pre-hiring interview, "I will give you five years. If you ever cut corners, you will be out of here by midnight." "We like to win," says the school's current president, the Rev. Edward A. ("Monk") Malloy, who as a Notre Dame undergraduate was a varsity basketball player. As a measure...
...bash or not to bash: that is the question. Whether 'tis nobler to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous trade practices. Or to take arms against protectionist barriers. To punish, to avenge. Perchance to trigger a trade war. Ay, there's the rub that must give us pause...
...driving to work when Dame Nature begins to shuffle across your innards in her steel-toed brogans. You stop at the nearest full- service gas station, ten miles down the road, grab the key, open the door and . . . Ay-yi, maybe you can wait after...
...their premiere dinner party in the charming old Connecticut house they have just bought. The Deetzes' teenage daughter Lydia, who dresses like Carolyn Jones in The Addams Family, sulks in the corner. The conversation fizzes, then fizzles; the guests shift uneasily. Time for a little . . . Day-o! Day-ay-ay- o! Daylight come and me wan' go home! What? Delia has risen and, to the astonishment of all, begun singing Harry Belafonte's banana-boat hit of 30 years past. Work all night on a drink of rum! Now the entire party, pulsing with the calypso beat, dances around...
Loraine: Today is today. Tomorrow is tomorrow. Who's left? Ben and Laura. Hey, Ben and Laura! Laurie, Karla, did you ever watch the show Duet? Did you do something, Annie Hartz? Ay Dios mio! Ayudame! ((She hoists two bags of trash over her shoulders and dumps them in the hall...