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Blair is unapologetic. "It is not a sin to want to be elected," he says. "Unless you're elected, you can't do a damn thing for anybody." Those who seek office, he knows, aren't shy about accommodating reality, and the realities have changed rapidly in Britain. Large chunks of the old working class have advanced into the middle class. Union membership, the bedrock Labour constituency, has dropped from 53% in 1980 to 32% in 1994. Many voters who once cast their ballots for Labour on the basis of a tribal instinct to support their similarly situated comrades floated...
...freezing wind-driven Ohiri Field on Saturday to watch the men's lacrosse team beat Yale, 13-5, you had to be in one of the following categories: a) a diehard lacrosse fan, b)a sports writer, or c) so drunk that you didn't give a damn whether you were watching a lacrosse game or a cricket match...
...that we all caught comet fever; Halley's had come to town. For several weeks we endured arctic temperatures, looking skyward until our necks were sore. Everyone ooed and ahhed, and I think I was the only kid in town who admitted to not being able to see the damn thing. Finally, one frigid night I looked through the telescope at the high school and saw a pea-sized white blob. I'm told it was the comet, but it looked more like frost on the lens to me. I knew from school that we wouldn't see the blob...
...complete." In Helping, a man sober for 18 months starts drinking again. He tells his distraught wife that "this drink I'm having is the only worthwhile thing I've done in the last year and a half." The morning after, he assesses the repercussions. "There would be damn little justice and no mercy...
...damn good sandwich if you're into that sort of thing," said Ethan A. Vogt '97, who sampled the Thai Me Up wrap...