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...format to see that he still has none of the "mutual respect" he so piously mentions in his last paragraph. I refer, of course, to his line in the next-to-last paragraph that "they like to assure me that all of us here at Harvard are born-and-bred snobs just as they assume that we all live on Beacon Hill and who prepped at Andover and Exeter." Mr. Wurf is implying that all those who live on Beacon Hill and who prepped at Andover and Exeter are snobs. How very snobby of Mr. Wurf. But of course...
...OTHER hand, judging from some of the responses say critical article has received from Duluthian, they aren't above gross generalizations about East Coast insensitivity. They like to assume that all of the here at Harvard are born-and-bred snobs--just as they assume that we all live on Beacon Hill and prepped at Andover and Exeter. The rest of the country acts as if it has somehow risen to a higher spiritual ground by moving out to the country. I doubt that the clean air makes them morally pure...
...flair for grand occasions on the court, and was the play-off MVP of 1981, now and then in the ordinary going he throttles down for an evening as if idling at a building project. This mildly annoys most of the other players, but it galls Bird, whose farm-bred ethic makes no allowance for sidewalk superintendents...
...enforcement official is claiming that the Mafia is about to be knocked out of operation. But the Justice Department hopes that its attack on the Sicilian-bred traditions and cohesiveness of U.S. mobsters will have a demoralizing impact. "The vice of the Mafia that makes it worse than ordinary crime is its organized structure," contends Rudolph Giuliani, 40, the aggressive U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York. "We're trying to indict and take out an entity, an organization, and not just the individuals...
...JUST DON'T understand it. I've been at Harvard for two years. I'm a typical Massachusetts-bred liberal, but I just can't get myself to froth at the mouth over divestiture...