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...that the Casper schools had not prepared the boys for Ivy League academics. "We were competing with kids who went to Andover and Exeter, and they knew what it was all about," Nicholas observes. What's more, say those who knew Cheney then, he spent more time "in the bend-your-elbow club," as a former Yalie puts it, than in the library. Cheney hung out with his cohort on the freshman football team, stayed up late playing cards and drinking beer. "Dick wasn't big on studying," remembers Jacob Plotkin, one of his roommates...
...lucky break quickly turned sour when the Democracy Wall movement broke out and the minister who helped Zhang was publicly attacked for using personal influence to bend the rules. Mention of Zhang's unorthodox admission cropped up in the "big-character posters" that festooned the school's walls. Added to this uncomfortable notoriety was the stigma of being a provincial rube of questionable political background, nine years older than most of his classmates at a school dominated by native Beijingers, many of whom were eagerly joining the Communist Party. So Zhang switched to the more prestigious major of film directing...
Round the Bend...
BONE FUSION: Fusing bones together with pins or plates can eliminate the pain caused by a badly damaged joint; the joint, however, will never bend again...
...democracy, we need a few reality checkpoints at which we all crowd together, nabob and yahoo, and rub elbows and get a clue about who lives here other than us. The draft-board physical used to be such a checkpoint, where even a Rockefeller had to spread them and bend over, but that's gone, a casualty of Vietnam. The older generation that went through all those checkpoints--Central High, the cafeteria, the Army, the train station--those folks learned to stand in line and accept their place in the picture, and they learned decency and kindness. I can remember...