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...legalization of a few gambling sites in Massachusetts makes economic sense. Because it limits gambling to specially-approved sites, thus avoiding the Las Vegas spectre of slot machines in laundromats, any negative impact will be limited. Gambling will give brilliant Harvard math majors a chance to practice card-counting skills. Bored Harvard students and post-thesis seniors will have something...
...performance before Spring Break, the council transcended more mundane diversions. The central plot was simple and brilliant: members "voted" over whelmingly to raise the fees that they charge students by a whopping 50 percent. The preposterous idea had been exaggerated to comic proportions, achieving self-referential irony. As if true" representatives" would actually vote themselves a huge tax increase...
Terrier goalie J.P. McKersie was brilliant in net as he stopped 14 of 15 Gopher shots in the second period before BU put on the defensive clamps early in the third...
...removal last May as White House communications director is not reserved merely for the Fourth Estate. Says an Administration colleague who claims to both like and respect him, "George sometimes gets this look on his face like you're wasting his time talking to him. He's brilliant, but he doesn't know everything." Of course, he may not know that. And accurately or no, many continue to feel he suffers from a moral arrogance. In this, of course, he is not alone. The Clintons have been accused on more than one occasion of adopting a philosophy in which...
Books: Dwight MacDonald was a brilliant gadfly...