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...time I come in contact with someone so obviously deranged, I may not be able to restrain my desire to strangle him. I doubt there is or will be a cure, but anality should definitely be treated as a disease, and Harvard should be able to provide a bumper crop of poster children for the first telethon...
With Duncan playing in every one of the Crimson's games over the last three years, the team has soared to a 52-24 record. Although Duncan has been an integral factor in the team's success, she is quick to note the importance of this year's crop of seniors, Sharon Hayes and Barbarann Keffer, Nancy Cibotti and Mary Baldauf...
Those with a taste for literary allusions will find more to savor here. Names lifted from other Hawthorne novels (Blithedale, Pyncheon) crop up in unexpected contexts; as Sarah seeks her karma in the Sunbelt, she has reason to resent "my old-fashioned Puritan conscience." But Updike's use of such references should not be taken too somberly; the stern, rock-ribbed moral universe of The Scarlet Letter serves here as a subtle counterpoint to a comic vision of anything-goes ethics in mid-1980s America...
Many agricultural products are becoming scarce. Although the government quadrupled the price of milk to reduce demand last November, both fresh and powdered milk are nearly impossible to find. Meat is generally available but too expensive for most tables. Even the country's largest export crop, coffee, has been endangered by mismanagement. Some 6,000 workers were dispatched last month to the northern part of the country to salvage what they can before millions of pounds of unpicked coffee beans rot on the ground...
...other major business in America is subsidized the way farming is. Price- support payments and federal assistance for flood and crop insurance could be trimmed substantially...