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...Stones have always been more of an album-oriented band--the classic Exile on Main Street, probably their finest, produced only one top twenty hit ("Tumbling Dice") from eighteen songs. And although "Honky Tonk Women" remains the prototype for a rock'n'roll 45, singles for the Stones have always been throwaways...
...such luck. I rather doubt anyone's claim to worse seats than ours at The Game on Saturday. Though it consisted of seniors only, our group was awarded seats in row "B", roughly eighteen inches above sea level. Moreover, these seats were at the 40 yard line: had they been hear the end zone, we might have been afforded at least a worm's eye view of some of the action. As it was, apart from an occasional glimpse of Joe Restic, we saw nothing but second string backsides...
...anything less than the national rate of inflation, to compensate those who work in them at levels commensurate with their skills. And these assaults of a fiscal nature will only be abetted by inevitable demographic curves. Within a dozen years there will be just about a million fewer eighteen years old in America than there were three years ago. The competition for potential college applicants will increase dramatically, and no institution will be immune. For even those universities whose colleges will still attract a greater pool of applicants than there will be places in a class will feel this shrinkage...
...second half started slowly, as neither team could mount a successful attack. After eighteen minutes of scoreless play, Ellen Hart broke the trance with her second goal...
...Hardy, the plot takes a dozen improbable turns. When he was a poor young man, Henchard got drunk at a country fair and sold his wife and daughter to a sailor for five guineas. Eighteen years later he is a rich hay and wheat merchant, as well as the mayor of Casterbridge. He is remorseful for his sin, however, and when his wife turns up, the sailor having been lost at sea, he tries to right the old wrong by marrying her again and adopting his own daughter...