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Ouch. Corporation members don’t usually damn departing presidents with faint praise. But Daniel was hardly alone in his opinion. Rudenstine had become widely seen, in the words of one critic, as “the incredible shrinking college president,” a man whose mild presence had diminished the stature of the Harvard presidency. Larry Summers, his proponents insisted, would restore the role of university president to its pre-Rudenstine stature...
...PREZ Man, President Summers could really use some Tommy’s right about now. Seriously—just one slice of that greasy, delicious pizza. Damn. All his troubles would drain away like our motivation to come up with a fresh joke on this subject...
...come back smaller and more true to itself, shedding expensive failures in places such as Nashville and Tampa and Equatorial Guinea. The few players who have name recognition will be too old to come back, so we?ll be forced to memorize completely new unpronounceable Swedish and Slovakian names. (Damn you for wasting my time, Miroslav Satan.) Hockey will be for the very few Americans it was meant for. Basically...
...half of it. And the half was $15 million. In today's market, you know, 15 doesn't buy you a lot, but Lakeshore raised the rest, foreign. So we went ahead and made it under the radar. Nobody knew we were making it, and nobody gave a damn that we were making...
...protest, people had been called to pray, fast, dress in black (one woman wore nothing but red-white-and-blue underpants), turn their backs, skip work, boycott gas, spend "Not One Damn Dime" to bring the economy to a halt for a day of lament. There were flags burned and snowballs thrown, much jostling, some pepper spray. The satirical Billionaires for Bush auctioned off Social Security and the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge before moving on to their Re-Coronation Ball (its code: "Dress to oppress"). The spirit of the First Amendment floated down Pennsylvania Avenue, between protesters chanting "Racist, sexist...