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Very little in Tobias' boyhood was cute or funny, as he wrote it. He was a snob, a thief, a cheat and, much like the father he barely remembered, a prodigious liar who constantly re-edited his own past and then nearly believed he was, in fact, a crack shot or a swimming champion. His only constant was his beautiful, flighty mother. She had expected to be a movie star. Her father had been briefly rich, and they had lived in Beverly Hills, California. At 16 she had ridden, smiling and vamping, on a float in the Tournament of Roses...
...movie screen, a bare-backed Jesus was being flogged, each crack of the whip booming like an earthquake from a sound system clearly meant to emulate its subject and raise the dead. On the 72-ft. by 52-ft. stage in front of the film, 12 barefoot Apostles in russet rags were running away from a dwarf wielding a big, white feather and Roman soldiers dressed like Darth Vader. Across the arena, in a distracting reminder of secularity, a vast glowing sign touted the spirituous appeal of Bud Light. At the audience's feet lay crumbs from loaves passed...
...Crimson (1-4 overall, 0-1 Ivy) will have to find a way to crack Stalfort's code, and that burden will most likely fall on the shoulders of sophomore Steve Gaffney and freshman Mike Eckert. Eckert and Gaffney lead the team in scoring with 16 and 15 points respectively. Gaffney scored three goals and had one assist in the Crimson's victory over Adelphi and made the Ivy League Honor Roll for his performance...
Columbia's top three players are a tough nut to crack, according to Burroughs...
...which did not raise its drinking age to 21. Within three years, all fifty states were in compliance. Section 158 was written and passed at the behest of groups like MADD (Mothers Against Drunk Driving) who saw raising the drinking age as an integral part of their campaign to crack down on drunk driving...