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...week in which we were a combined 19-11 with our picks, we're currently resting quite comfortably on our deluxe laurels. And receiving several offers from struggling NFL squads to come in and be The Man. To which we always turn our eyes down modestly, and kick the dirt a little, and say "Aw, shucks, Coach" and get ready to dazzle the readers again. Which brings us to this week, in which we'd just like to remind our loyal readers to play hard, dance with the ones that brung ye, and remember to tip your bartender...
Fortunately, many of the questionable personalities who come to (or come from) Harvard have dirt but not blood on their hands. A few, like Yavlinsky, are no more than sorry jokes back home. But what is truly frightening is how this cavalcade of distinguished people, both admirable and scurrilous, affects the egos of thousands of students who graduate from this institution...
...hours into this ceremony, he turns to a row of cripples, sweating near the fire in their wheelchairs. "Are you a believer?" Ifargan asks Gabriel Rafael, 22, who suffers from multiple sclerosis. The crowd raises Rafael by his arms. The young man struggles to scuff his feet through the dirt. The crowd wills a miracle, until the exhausted invalid collapses into his wheelchair. "I do feel stronger," he says...
Gore's choice was no more than a political decision to try to use a person with the mantle of Mr. Clean to distract voters from the Clinton-Gore dirt. After denouncing President Clinton but voting against his impeachment, will Lieberman now join Gore in declaring Clinton "one of our greatest Presidents"? That would be real chutzpah. FRANK L. FRABLE Aurora...
...sinister funhouse ambience extends to FARC headquarters, some eight miles up a dirt road in Los Pozos, where I found jungle-hardened guerrillas hunched over computers, rifles hanging off the backs of chairs as they answered their e-mail. (FARC's commanders maintain their own Hotmail accounts.) I was introduced to several FARC commanders, but none was as colorful as Julian Conrado, a balladeer with a goofy mustache who manages to rhyme "Americano" with "imperio romano." He's lost three guitars in battle, he says proudly. "One of my guitars was held up by a Colombian general...