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...Bent Backwards to be Fair...
...fact, several of the Harvard oarsmen thought that Parker had bent over backwards to avoid favoring them in the selection process...
...George McGovern as the most vulnerable. Says White House Political Adviser Harry Dent: "Some people around here are about to wee-wee in their pants waiting for him to get the nomination." If the South Dakotan succeeds, the President's outriders will portray McGovern as a dangerous radical bent on emasculating the Pentagon and the free-enterprise system, legalizing marijuana and abortion, abandoning U.S. commitments in Viet Nam and around the world...
...tradition. Less significant but rather symbolic was the controversy over the court's bench. When Burger suggested redesigning it so that the Justices could see and hear one another better, he originally considered a V shape with himself at the apex. Other Justices resisted. The bench was ultimately bent in two places so that it now resembles a half hexagon...
...lovers of a philosophical bent may ponder an empty frame bearing the label A Knife Without a Blade Whose Handle Is Missing. Georg-Christoph Lichtenberg, 1742-1799* The more athletic ones can equip themselves for the outback with a bizarre weapon whose barrel undulates like a snake: it is a kangaroo gun, "whose specially studied trajectory enables the bullet to follow the bounding animal...