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Mattlin accepted his current double on the ground floor of a Canaday entry instead of the Weld suite. "They really wanted me here. I could have fought, but it seemed nice being on the ground floor in terms of socializing." Workers widened Mattlin's bedroom and bathroom doors, constructed a small, wooden ramp at the door to his double, and poured fresh asphalt at the entryway door at a cost of about $2500. Robert Mortimer, superintendent of the Yard, says...
Using the advertising-speech distinction is a dangerous act of hypocracy. Dangerous because under The Crimson's ruling, Southern newspapers unsympathetic to the Civil Rights movement would have been perfectly justified in refusing to print ads submitted by Blacks, who had organized, and fought hard to raise the necessary money. Hypocritical because while we can safely assume that the majority would oppose any statute which infringed on journalist's rights, The Crimson will not extend an equal amount of protection to Screw magazine...
Meanwhile the Radcliffe "light and loose," as they like to be called, were edged by MIT in a closely fought contest that wasn't determined until the last 20 strokes. The Radcliffe J.V. surprised everyone by jumping to an early lead, scaring MIT and daring the Radcliffe varsity into lengthening and strengthening its strokes...
Probably you think the conflict in Ireland is some sort of religious war that has gone on forever. 'They've fought so long they don't remember what they're fighting about.' 'Killing each other in the name of God.' Well, not exactly. It happens that Ireland was the first victim of British imperialism, and, as it turns out, among the last. The English finally subdued the Celts at the Battle of the Boyne close to 400 years ago; quickly they peopled the nation with subjects loyal to the crown. And the Irish have been fighting since. They...
...shit at each other." These soldiers seem to distinguish something about Vietnam that set it apart from other wars. Unfortunately, they don't explain what it is. So we must be tantalized by the idea (probably correct, I think) that the ugliness of Vietnam was unique for those who fought it. The answer (if there is one) to the question of what made Vietnam different may not be answerable in a work of non-fiction; perhaps it requires a leap of imagination not within the reach of the historian or journalist. This book, alas, does not even...