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...Lagos diplomatic circles. He neither smokes nor drinks, keeps his 5-ft. 10-in. frame trim at 140 Ibs. by playing squash or polo every day, and laces his conversation with such mission-school phrases as "goodness me." He once apologized to newsmen for saying "hell" and added, "I forgot that I am a soldier." When asked how he hoped to be remembered for his conduct of the war, he replied, "I want to feel that I played my part like a good sportsman...
...They had fought, by that time, the equivalent of 70 rounds, and on several occasions got carried away and forgot to pull their punches. "You couldn't put those two together without them testing each other," says Woroner. Ali bloodied Marciano's nose (just as the computer said he would). At another point, when his arms were covered with welts and felt heavy as scrap iron, Muhammad retreated to his corner and refused to come out again until Woroner paid him an extra $2,000 in cash. (Ali's original deal was $10,000, plus a piece...
...what happened afterwards: the horrible revelation that. when sleeping with a total stranger, the pleasure content of the whole things drops suddenly to near zero, right after orgasm. You might as well have been beating off; it was almost as pleasurable and not nearly as much hassle. What pornographers forgot about- or never knew- was that it's a lot more fun to make love with somebody you care about than with a more or less total stranger. I still like pornography still read it, still use it as a masturbatory and- but I have come to accept its total...
...bitter months that followed, students understandably forgot about their aim of finding out why Harvard's education was failing them, and what they could do about that failure. Another semester of lectures and sections and reading period and papers and exams and final grades is now almost gone, and it is only on Dean May's initiative that some students and instructors in the Houses are trying to come up with ideas for reforming Harvard's undergraduate curriculum...
Yana and I found an abandoned VW bus to sleep in. It was windproof and warm and had some extra bedding in it. As she unrolled her bedroll she said. "Look, I forgot that I didn't have my baby with me anymore. "Rolled up inside her sleeping bag was an empty baby bottle and an assortment of second-hand and home-made baby clothes in faded, dull-colored plaids and paisleys...