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What makes this combination particularly shameful is that money can buy so much of the pleasure and freedom that ordinarily belong to the young. Poor children living in scary neighborhoods have to grow up fast. But affluent grownups can prolong their own childhoods through years of higher education and sheltered internships. They can spend money on therapies that explore the "inner child." They get to play too, well into the Centrum Silver years, at the kind of outdoor sports any kid would love. All of which is fine, except when these charming traits are combined with indifference toward the condition...
...reward for Torre after 37 years in baseball. In order to win his first World Series, the 56-year-old native New Yorker did something truly extraordinary--he gave the Yankees back their identity. They are no longer George Steinbrenner's team, though he still owns them. They now belong to Pettitte and Joe Girardi and Bernie Williams, the way the Yankees once belonged to Whitey Ford and Yogi Berra and Mickey Mantle. Actually, Steinbrenner no longer has to move Yankee Stadium. Torre and his team have already done...
Just for a moment, I could see the Braves moving back to Boston, where they belong. The players are trotting north on the interstate, as calmly as if they'd all been ordered to the outfield for some stretching drills. Behind them, stumbling in an effort to keep up, a pack of Atlanta boosters are shouting, "Hey, wait a minute...just a second now...you can't do this...this is a world-class city...
...Harvard community. Shouts of "The fraternities are coming!" echoed off the ivy-covered walls of this hallowed institution, and students cowered in fear of the imminent invasion of hordes of drunken frat boys. In fact, this school is so rabidly anti-fraternity that admitting you like them (or--gasp--belong to one) is almost akin to admitting to a loathsome disease...
Since special concentrators do not belong to a traditional department, Deborah Foster, the head tutor for special concentrators, must recommend a comparable concentration in which students should be judged, Waltman said...