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...moments of perplexity, Clinton recently summoned a group of academics, historians, writers and philosophers to the White House for what has come to be known as a "thinkers dinner." Even for Clinton, the Renaissance Weekend veteran, this was an eclectic gathering. It included 87-year-old political scientist Samuel Beer, who on his first visit to the White House shook hands with a newly inaugurated Warren Harding and years later wrote speeches for F.D.R.; lapsed conservative Michael Lind, whose literary credits include an epic poem on the siege at the Alamo; Dan Yergin, an energy expert who has lately been...
...Monday Night Football is also expansive. Without its "crown jewel," ABC would have a serious programming hole on Monday night--try coming up with half a dozen new shows. And even with diminished ratings, football still delivers eyeballs, particularly those of the young male viewers whom advertisers of cars, beer and other guy stuff want to reach. Although Monday Night's ratings are at an all-time low, the program ranked fifth among prime-time shows...
...intense negotiations, the Independent lent us its even more primitive type-setting facilities; all evening long, a steady stream of first-year compers shuttled typescript and galleys through the snows between Plympton Street and the Freshman Union. Down in the shop, we put together the paper in a frantic, beer-fueled haze. Around 5 a.m., the dread moment finally arrived--when, in the absence of pressman Lew Brooks, we would have to wrestle with The Crimson's hulking offset press by ourselves...
...Sperm Bank Solution is a favorite pastime of Harvard males. The holy grail of term-time employment, it's tossed around in conversations as a sure fire way to get out from under escalating debt, the perfect way to make back all that money spent on foot, books and beer...
...gross misallocation of police resources: "Cambridge is far from devoid of violent crime. Officers would better serve the community strolling ill-lit Linden Street late at night rather than playing clerk behind the cash-register at Christy's waiting for an 8-year-old to try to buy beer...