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...have routinely done a bad job of attendance," writes Todd E. Plants '01. "The only real difference is that there are a bunch of people that actively dislike John, so they point...
...especially frustrating for the offense, but it's hard for everyone," Burg said. "If your playing well on attack, and then the next time you see the ball the other teams scored a bunch of quick goals, it's hard because it is a whole new game. You just can't worry about it during the game...
Ellis didn't lack for formal audacity. He Cuisinarted a bunch of cultural influences, with Dostoyevsky, the '80s preppie-murder case and the original Psycho (Norman Bates=Patrick Bateman) sliced and spliced into an inversion of The Bonfire of the Vanities. In Tom Wolfe's novel, Wall Streeter Sherman McCoy accidentally kills someone and gets hounded by an entire city. Patrick, who works at the same fictional firm as McCoy (Pierce and Pierce, if you get the joke's knife point), slaughters half a dozen people, or maybe 20 or 40; and not only does he get away with...
...yeah, all the time. I still doubt it. I'm 40 years old, I don't own a house, I don't own anything! I have a van with 170,000 miles on it. I own a bunch of albums. One of my roommates from college is now almost a billionaire. He became a venture capitalist in Silicon Valley, and now he's going to be worth a billion in a couple of years. And God bless him, it's great. That's what he wanted to do, he set out, and was in the right place at the right...
...need to define myself for the government? In defense of the census, I'd argue that those very questions expose the most important reason for participating in a complete and accurate headcount: If we don't define ourselves, the government will do it for us. The idea of a bunch of old white guys sitting around the Capitol Building doling out money for programs according to their warped idea of who is an American should provide adequate impetus for even the most private person to rush out and solicit a census form...