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WHAT KILLED THE BOOM Britain ultimately collapsed under the weight of defending the empire from colonial uprisings and imperial rivals. It lost its technological edge. Lastly, and most ghastly, the Great War bled it white...
...because Larry was and always should be a Celtic. You know the story...those guys like Cousy, Heinson, Cowens and Russell who bled green. They believed in the leprechauns and made them a reality...
Before Anthony Lake decided to bag his CIA nomination, White House aides complained privately that he was being bled to death by the "Ted Sorensen strategy." Sorensen was the ex-Kennedy Administration aide who became Carter's abortive nominee for CIA chief in 1977. Of the Lake debacle, Sorensen (now an international lawyer in New York City) told TIME last week: "Been there, done that": "Looking grim and even more somber than usual, [Sorensen] read a vigorous 10-page rebuttal of what he called 'scurrilous and personal attacks.' When he had finished, he picked up another piece of paper...
Capps, 41, was the kind of guy who, when pricked, bled in rainbow colors. His defection, when it came six months ago, was so startling that the New York Times reported it. Now when he walks the streets of Silicon Valley, people hiss...
...into collecting gold. In Haiti, he ordered that all Indians over age 14 surrender a quota of gold every three months. The quota was unattainable--gold did not exist in the quantities that Columbus imagined. Nevertheless, Indians who did not meet the quota had their hands cut off and bled to death...