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...then there was Lundy. Alone on the floor with Princeton's Brightfield, the Crimson captain needed a victory to keep Harvard's chances alive, at least mathematically. Serving erratically but playing his incredibly solid game throughour, Lundy brought home the bacon after laboring back and forth with Brightfield for more than two hours...
...Scott Walker went up, 3-2, on Jack Cobetto and Brad Dressler, needing to take but two of the last four points to nail down the win. The Elis had other plans, as they swiped three straight points to tie team match at 4-all, then brought home the bacon by winning at number three...
...logic of Hamilton's ambitions dictated that he should have become President of the country he did so much to create; it is just as well that the honor escaped him. When Jefferson once remarked that he thought the greatest men in history were Francis Bacon, Isaac Newton and John Locke, Hamilton replied that, no, the greatest man who ever lived was Caesar...
Repeal Inflationary Special-Interest Laws. The Jones Act, which requires all goods moving between U.S. ports to travel aboard high-cost U.S. ships, has many inflationary consequences, including raising the price of Alaskan oil shipped to the West and Gulf Coasts. The Davis-Bacon Act, a relic of the Depression, swells construction costs by requiring, in effect, that union wages must be paid on all federally aided projects...
Pipe arguments are the equivalent of pipe dreams. The farther they wander from probabilities, the more fun and fury they produce. Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear were experts at such arguments: Is too much energy being wasted transporting ham and bacon from farm to dinner table? How pleasurable to insist that pigs must fly. Author Jerry Mander's treatise offers precisely this kind of joyous irresponsibility. The world knows that the megabucks technology of television is not, repeat not, going to be eliminated. On his final page, Mander himself acknowledges that he has no idea...