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Wretched excess comes in many forms. Theologians distinguish the excess called avarice--the sheer, mean taking and hoarding of things--from the excess called prodigality, which is a messier and more full-blooded fault, a form of generosity, almost, but one that has come unhinged. Ideally, world-class plundering should try to pay its way as entertainment. The Romans had a genius for transforming loot into colossally vulgar display, ostentation on an imperial scale. The Emperor Elagabalus, it is said, ordered his slaves to bring him 10,000 lbs. of cobwebs. When they finished the task, Elagabalus observed, "From this...
...wasn't our fault that we didn't play well," said Eli Coach Tim Taylor, whose team played just under 72 minutes of exhausting hockey the previous night. "We just didn't have anything left. I'm not disappointed. I think we've won the accolades of everyone in the league this season...
...NOTES are not very good and its largely my own fault. Not only do I have a tendency to fall asleep in any lecture that doesn't show or at least mention Gilligan more than once, but I can't take notes. While most people take down the important points and ideas of a lecture, I have a strange congenital disorder which allows me to catch only transition elements. Thus, even if I manage to stay awake for the whole hour, my only record of it is a piece of paper which says "We must first...therefore...the most important...
...year, almost twice what Texas Air skippers receive. Eastern has slipped repeatedly into the red, and its comebacks never seem to last. After managing a $73 million profit for the first nine months of last year, the airline lost $67 million in the final quarter. Many employees fault Borman, the former Apollo astronaut who became chairman in 1976; they feel that he has never earned his wings as a successful business executive...
STUDENTS WHO ARE not willing to spend thirty minutes suggesting what the council should be doing simply do not have the right to criticize its ineffectiveness, let alone laugh at its blunders. If the council is inefficient and lacks direction, it is largely the fault of a humiliatingly complacent and apathetic student body that would rather watch a sit-com on Channel 4 than bother to participate in improving student life...