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Acevedo claims that O'Connor "left even her most devoted fans without much of a clue as to her motives." This is sheer and unadulterated nonsense. Did he bother to talk to any of her "devoted fans" to substantiate his fantasy? As one of them, I would have been very happy to explain to him her motives, which are as noble as they are modest...
...needn't bother; his personality is as loud and colorful as his neckties. But his audience does listen up, some of them in "Rush rooms" -- parts of restaurants where the show is piped in for the faithful. They'll talk back too, to offer either "mega-dittos" (indicating total agreement with the host) or nega-dittos. "When he calms down and stops horsing around," says erstwhile movie star Jane Russell, "he speaks common American sense, which we've been throwing into the toilet." Russell's husband, the crusty Texan John Peoples, adds, "If bulls--- was music...
After cruising through its typical why-bother-playing-if-you're-going-to-lose-so-badl y streak, Harvard (1-4 overall, 1-1 Ivy) must now focus on the only glory it could possibly have coming to it: the Ivy League title which it hasn't won in five years...
...charity, a school by default. If your parents are destitute and you can't even afford (never mind get admitted to) the local church school, yon can always go to public school. With even less money and with few people above the poverty level attending them, no one will bother to fix the schools. Many of the wealthier people who run governments will have their children safely in a private school...
...David Lauter, who covers Clinton for the Los Angeles Times: "When people say Clinton has been favored in the press, there's a certain amount of amnesia going on. For that matter, at the end of the Gulf War people were writing that the Democrats would be silly to bother running against Bush...