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...possibilities. In 1901, two years before they took off from Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Wilbur Wright told his brother Orville that man would not fly for 50 years. Not long before the atom bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, Admiral William Leahy advised President Harry Truman, "That is the biggest fool thing we have ever done . . . the bomb will never...
POLITICAL SATIRE IS GENERALLY considered a fool's undertaking in the theater. Indeed, George S. Kaufman, who misfired with the genre a few times, used to say, "Satire is what closes on Saturday night." If satire is pointed enough to be good, it tends to alienate potential customers. It usually grows dated long before recouping its costs. And it must be truly outlandish to exceed reality...
...they really think they can fool us? Professors put a snazzy title on their courses to attract students to shop their courses, hoping that they won't look beyond the colon to see what the course is actually about. They don't need airplanes or posters all over campus to get enough live bodies to fill the typical room in Server. See if you can match these great titles with their more sedate second halves. For an extra challenge, try to pick out the few courses that do have great titles--no catch. All answers are easily accessible...
...miniautobiography Hart had written shortly before the 1988 campaign. In the last paragraph of that otherwise forgettable book, Hart said, "The immortal Yeats wrote, 'Not a man alive has so much luck he can play with.' As usual," continued Hart, "Yeats put it right. A man would be a fool to take his luck for granted." Clinton has already admitted an overeagerness to please, an aversion to saying anything that could cause people to dislike him. If he doesn't transcend that foible quickly, his luck may run out on Nov. 3, and he will be back in Little Rock...
This bit of PR couldn't fool the most naive city-dweller. The pamphlet's first sentence reads, "It is not readily apparent to U.S. Highway 101 travelers that the logged areas all along the route are giving birth to a new generation of forests." No kidding. But it only gets better--"Although the recently logged areas will be unattractive for a time, new trees are growing rapidly." Well, not exactly. I could drive down that road every day for the rest of my life and it would still look like Mt. St. Helens had erupted in the next field...