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Napoleon thought of one, but not until 192 years later would a tunnel under the Channel linking England and the Continent be finished. Beginning on their respective shores, teams of French and English sandhogs used 1,000-ton boring machines to burrow through the 24 miles of chalk, clearing 20 million tons. The two sides...
...tempting to chalk up the lockout to the trendy labor strife that has hung over professional athletics ever since Curt Flood and Marvin Miller helped bring us free agency back in 1974. We know-the players are greedy, the owners are greedy and the fans are underappreciated. Let them fight it out, let us complain and then let's play ball...
...rotten in Denmark," or just break entirely from the dialogue and say, "God I hope I didn't just shit myself!" The crowd will most likely go nuts with hilarity and you will get congrats for weeks on your good save. If your theater teacher gives you any beef, chalk it up to artistic license--he'll love you for your courage to break new dramatic barriers...
...been talking about my twenty-first birthday for months. Each twenty-eighth day from July to October was a chalk mark in my cell of illegality. Fumbling with IDs which couldn't possibly be mine; hastily memorizing "I live on Cedar Lane, am 5'11," and August 6, 1975 makes me twenty three" and explaining to bouncers that the airport in Toronto had lost my luggage and "of course my passport, too...doesn't that suck?" would be a thing of the past. I would be allowed to drink as myself. I could wear what I wanted to bars...
...professionals with professional training, but they are not making professional salaries or earning professional respect." One of the best ways to change the attitudes of politicians who use teacher bashing as the main plank of their campaign platforms or of those who view teachers as unskilled laborers covered in chalk dust is to get into the classroom and improve the education of our nation's children. Harvard would do well to promote the UTEP program more aggressively and use the Office of Career Services to advocate teaching careers. Who better than the "World's Greatest University" to take...