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...wish that if you had the choice to do it all over again, you would have chosen to play basketball over Little League, so that with a little luck and a lot of talent, you could have become the shooting guard for North Carolina instead of some college hoops freak who eats Doritos and drinks beer every weekend in front of a color television...
...away. I rolled over and went back to sleep. Ten minutes later she called again, this time sounding really concerned. So I threw on a pair of sweats and dragged myself through the snow to Harvard Hall, cursing all the way and wondering why I became such a hockey freak...
That Darman takes such pride in a pact unfamiliar to nearly all ordinary mortals -- rather than megadeals like the 1983 Social Security rescue or the 1986 tax-reform act -- shows still another of his several facets. He is a relentless future freak. In a town obsessed with the crisis du jour, he frequently peers at the far horizon and tosses off jeremiads about his sightings. Lately he has been preaching against the rampant impulse for instant gratification. Americans "need to reinstill in ourselves a sense of the importance of the future," he argues. No one argues back in principle...
...freak storm covered the city with 25 inches of snow that late March week, making conditions unfavorable for public protest. But it was the violence that would distress King more. Members of the Invaders, a local group of black militants, infiltrated his march with the garbage men. When windows were smashed, police moved in against orderly demonstrators and radicals alike. Despondent over the chaos and the rift in his once solid movement, King said, "Maybe the good people should just stand aside until the violence has run its course...
Harvard's hockey team advances to the NCAA finals against Michigan State. A freak accident involving a drunken Zamboni driver and five upperclassmen in bunny suits leaves the starting line-ups of both teams unable to compete...