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...Harvard's smallest departments, the Celtic Department, completed a major turnover in personnel by hiring a specialist in Irish literature from University College Cork, Ireland...
...babies so wet that their diapers give off rainbows (a Phyllis Diller line she loves to steal). Or about her husband, the football watcher, who sits in front of the tube "like a dead sponge surrounded by bottle caps" until "the sound of his deep, labored breathing puts the cork on another confetti-filled evening." About her schoolboy son who flunked lunch. About her washing machine, which eats one sock in every pair; her kids ask where the lost ones go, and she tells them that they go to live with Jesus. About how, when one kid ate an unknown...
Eisenhower spent that last night among the men of the 101st Airborne, who called themselves the Screaming Eagles. They had blackened their faces with burnt cork, and many had shaved their heads so that they looked like Indian warriors. They were tense and nervous, weighed down with not only rifles, pistols, knives and grenades but also cigarettes, first-aid kits, fresh socks, about 100 Ibs. in all. Eisenhower's talk was simple but encouraging: "Where are you from, Soldier? Did you get those shoulders working in a coal mine? Good luck to you tonight, Soldier...
...beginning of a long struggle, one that every Harvard student shares. It is the range of emotions between receiving a Coop rebate and missing the last shuttle back from Hilles. It is hearing the pop of a champagne cork after a senior's last exam and it is that sinking feeling you get on the plane after Christmas break--when the pilot says you'll be landing soon at Logan Airport and you look down at the snow-covered frozen city and think you can see the Yard...
...intimate connections, however, Gray is not just a political fixer. The rules of lobbying have changed since the days when the legendary Thomas ("Tommy the Cork") Corcoran could pick up the phone and deliver the goods for a client. As federal regulations have grown ever stricter in the past 15 years, the number of registered lobbyists has quadrupled. There are now about 6,500, or just over twelve for every member of Congress. But while this growing cacophony of special-interest groups is fighting to be heard, lobbying has become more open, thanks to the full-disclosure demands...