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Asking them to do otherwise is futile. Let them drag rent control--a very dead horse--through the dirt. The time they waste will prevent them from doing more damaging things. And Gov. Weld can simply veto whatever they produce...
...acres with his father and two brothers near Westboro, Missouri, stood in a soggy snow flurry and looked down on the family's land in the Tarkio River valley, more than a third of which had been covered with water 15 months ago. Bulldozers growled and snorted, pushing dirt back into breaches in the series of levees that have protected the Hurst holdings for three generations. "What is it going to be this year?" Hurst wondered apprehensively. Though long-range weather reports were favorable for the summer, he was too wounded to have faith. His income had been chopped...
...Saturdays, when an afternoon of running and tackling and grinding people into the dirt is over, a group of Harvard women will get together for a few drinks. Then they'll sing an old favorite, generally something like "S&M Chick," recited to the tune of "The Candyman...
...problem of accepting uncorroborated testimony on practices that many people would be embarrassed to declare. "Everybody loves to talk about sex," he notes, "but not many want to talk about their own sex lives -- especially if they don't have any. Still, I'm impressed by how much dirt the boys from Chicago were able...
...would take a machine operator and a hauler a day to take the back to the dirt," he said...