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...wore a coat...
...display, ostentation on an imperial scale. The Emperor Elagabalus, it is said, ordered his slaves to bring him 10,000 lbs. of cobwebs. When they finished the task, Elagabalus observed, "From this, one can understand how great a city is Rome." Louis XIV of France wore a diamond-covered coat that, at the turn of the 18th century, was worth a dazzling 14 million francs: the Sun King got up in the splendors of Liberace...
Certainly, there is no way to prevent a percentage of the student body from spending three years in nefarious Radcliffe Quadrangle, upon which students heap even more abuse than on the Kool-Aid art that not so long ago gave it a sticky winter coat of many colors. But there are alternatives to both the current lottery system and to completely "random" solutions...
...march winds past the White House--symbol of oppression. The marchers begin to sing something about Ronald Reagan, Jerry Falwell and garbage heaps in back alleys. Some women slam down red-painted coat hangers on the pavement. There is a huge pile of twisted wire in front of the White House...
Sabine had spent nearly $500 on a new coat, a fresh suit of clothes and some towels when an announcement came over a department-store loudspeaker that a nearby bank had been robbed. Deciding that it was unsafe to walk around with so much cash, Sabine walked over to a second downtown bank, People's Heritage. There, he began filling out forms to open a checking account. An alert teller, who had heard about the heist two blocks away, took one look at Sabine and, despite his new coat, called the police. Said a bank official...