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...adamant couch lovers who couldn't care less about socialization and better health, vanity can be a reliable motivator. Chicagoan Merle Smith, 71, a hardwood-floor distributor, says he wouldn't be caught dead working out except for the fact that he has a cute female personal trainer--and she makes him look fine. "A 36-year-old made a pass at me the other day," he says. Two years ago at the Sun City retirement community near Austin, Texas, hunky senior residents agreed to pose for a community-events calendar dubbed--what else--Aged Beef. The calendar's creators...
...then attempts to couch these views by claiming that he’s not for deeming his targets “illegal,” only “unacceptable” in the Harvard community. This very type of rationale not only has resulted in the tainted presence across the country of campus speech codes limiting free expression, but is the antecedent for such reprehensible acts as the destruction of newspapers at Brown University, an incident resulting from perpetrators finding a news item not “illegal,” just merely “unacceptable...
...Couch worked with class officers and PBHA members to construct the guest list for Thursday's presentation, which included people who do not regularly give to the College, but have the capability to do so and backgrounds in public service. Of 45 invited alumni, 18 attended, which Couch says is a high percentage for fundraising events...
Given the timing of this campaign and the stock market's recent downward spiral, students are hesitant to expect huge returns from their requests for funding. But Couch, the seasoned professional, is not overly worried...