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...certainly has worked out for the team from the Bronx this year, a scrappy squad that won early, won often and puzzled teams so much that frustrated players could only spit tobacco juice and mutter appreciatively "Damn, Yankees" (1958). The musical, starring Tab Hunter, is notable both for its solid choreography (from a young Bob Fosse, who also gets a cameo) as well as a plot that Padres fans just might want to consider: Small-team fan sells his soul to help his guys beat the mighty Yanks. Great fun, especially since (the Yankees losing? Preposterous!) it's so obviously...
...flash you if you let me," one girl offered, but Larry, being the decent guy that he is, refused. He admits, however, that he "would have said yes if it weren't for those damn cameras." Poor Larry. So close. But we all know how it is--no one gets a piece at Harvard...
...council pestered by biased campus media and outspoken critics overly anxious to pounce on the slightest mishap and play down even the most notable achievements. And most troubling, it is a council that exists within a constituency of students who seemingly just don't give a damn...
...haven't they? In Gordon's view, "what keeps computers from being truly productive is that these damn human beings keep getting in the way." Many jobs cannot be fully automated: "Planes will always need two pilots and trucks a driver." Computers cannot replace beauticians, gardeners or restaurant chefs. Moreover, there is the law of diminishing returns: the latest PCs do not represent as great an advance over earlier computers as the first did over typewriters, or as typewriters did over writing by hand. Says Gordon: "I cannot type or think any faster than I did with my first personal...
...President Clinton's sexual transgressions and attempts to keep them private. Adultery and deceit go hand in hand. What does trouble me about Clinton's lies is that when he shook his finger at me and said, "I did not have sexual relations with that woman," he was so damn convincing. Nixon's Oval Office offenses and subsequent prevarications were a thousandfold more reprehensible, but I could always take comfort in his transparency. Slick Willie snookered most of us. MARTIN BLINDER San Anselmo, Calif...