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Situated on the southern shore of beautiful Lake Winnebago, the Wisconsin city of Fond du Lac (pop. 34,400) appears to be a pleasant haven far removed from the poverty and pain of the nation's recession-struck cities. Peopled mainly by second-and third-generation descendants of German immigrants, the city prides itself on being the home of the thrifty, the hard working and the tidy. Houses are neatly painted, lawns well kept, streets clean. Main Street is currently being resurfaced, and the perky detour sign reads: PARDON OUR PROGRESS...
Appearances deceive. The translation of the town's French name seems to have a hidden significance: bottom of the lake. Beneath the well-groomed composure, Fond du Lac is a scared city. Its unemployment rate has already risen above the national average of 7.8% to 10.5%. Because three of the town's main industries-outboard motors, auto parts and home-building materials-have been among the hardest hit by the current recession, the rate continues to rise. Mercury Marine, the nation's second largest outboard-engine maker (after Outboard Marine of Waukegan, Ill.), has fired or furloughed...
...over and over, how Hanover has the highest consumption figures for Anheuser-Busch products in the country, and how neat the bonfire they hold at the end of their freshman week is, and how it really is every bit as good a school as Harvard. And they are fond of throwing beer bottles...
...heat of the summer, the accomplishments of the past spring have crept surreptitiously into the remote corners of our minds, the crannies we reserve for fond memories. Few people besides Crimson coaches are doting on the prospects for the fall season. Sports Information tells me it hasn't penned a press release since the sundry Harvard crews traveled to the Henley regatta, unusual for an office that casually churns out hundreds per semester...
...telling that Kim Philby's fellow spy, Guy Burgess, was fond of quoting Forster's doctrine, since, thanks to a tip-off from Philby, Burgess was able to flee England for the Soviet Union. Not that Forster would have approved of Philby or Burgess; the event merely shows that personal loyalty can sound prettier than it is. In The Third Man, Graham Greene created a wholly honest hero, honesty being a tenet of good friendship, who is a loyal friend to an evil man. In the end, Holly Martins betrays the child-murderer Harry Lime because he comes...