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Sooner or later, in big things or small, everybody betrays everybody--not necessarily out of malice, but because loyalty runs counter to what one laughingly calls normal human behavior. "Into what danger would you lead me, Cassius?" asks Brutus, who is, in fact, an honorable man yet is easily seduced to treason by an envious one. I can still hear George McGovern's avowal of fealty to his running mate, Thomas Eagleton, in the 1972 presidential campaign, after it was revealed that Eagleton had undergone electric-shock therapy. "I'm behind him 1,000%," said McGovern, a few days before...
...Endowment is a counter-market force," Frohnmayer said. "We're there to support [art] because no one else is there to support...
...people finish their meals, they bring their dishes into the kitchen, scraping their food into a compost bucket. Dishes pile up on the counter, waiting to be cleaned by a dutiful Co-oper. Leftovers will be eaten for lunch on Saturday, or incorporated into Saturday dinner. Wu mentions that on any given night, 7 to 15 guests eat at the co-op, and are invited to come again, and bring friends...
...Foundation offers a model for the structuring of future Trust committees, and S. Alan Counter, director of the Foundation, will serve as a member of the Trust committee...
...Students should be autonomous in deciding on grants," Counter said...