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Gore's technical answers to questions posed by alumni seemed to drain much of the audience's interest...
...with the theme parks. Walt Disney's genius was to drain the boardwalk midway of its anarchy and menace. He smoothed and creamed and pureed it into a shamelessly sweet, hopelessly inauthentic 3-D movie set he called a theme park. His movies are Hans Christian Andersen pasteurized. His parks are Coney Island homogenized. In both he created the perfect entertainment for children...
Harold's illness was also a great financial drain. Nixon had to turn down a scholarship offer from Harvard (Yale was also interested in him) and save money by attending tiny Whittier College; Duke University Law School was just starting when it offered Nixon one of the 25 scholarships available to a class of 44. At first he lived in a $5-a-month room. Later he shared a one-room shack that had no plumbing or electricity; he shaved in the men's room of the library. In three years at Duke, he never once went...
...infers that illegal immigrants cost the state jobs and drain the state treasury," Becerra said. "California lost over 800,000 jobs in the past recession. Two hundred thousand were lost in the aerospace industry--hardly a major employer of illegal immigrants...
...haven't the loopholes all been sealed shut? Sure, every tax bill from 1934 to 1993 has been hailed by Congress as the ultimate loophole plugger, but somehow there are still enough of these little leaks to drain off billions from the public treasury. Among them: luxury homes in which nothing goes on but "business," or tax dodges like the Beverly Hills Gun Club, which provides substantial paper losses for investors like Sylvester Stallone...