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Unfortunately, as the election stumbles onward, it has become ever more clear that Yale's strong showing on the ballots, at least those not marked for Pat Buchanan, is a freakish departure from the school's decidedly subpar norms. Rather than entering a new period of enlightenment and detoxification, Yale is slipping back into its long-accustomed Dark Ages. The iron gates in front of its dormitories can barely withstand the Viking onslaughts and stray bullets, and Yale's brief moment in the sun is revealed as an Indian summer before the long, howling winter of Eli discontent...
What if we lost Florida? I mean physically lost the state? Let's say this Sunday, a freakish seismic shift rips Florida from its moorings, sending it (and the Bush-Gore legal teams), floating off into the Atlantic. Then what happens...
...actually gave the election to one side or another. If it did, of course, it puts an interesting spin on actual environmental policy. Do the Republicans, by loosening pollution standards, really want to get a lock on future elections by altering the climate and buffeting the nation with freakish megastorms? Or are they sabotaging themselves by promoting global warming, thus guaranteeing balmy days in November in Democrat precincts in Detroit...
Gardner's profile makes Rocky look polished. The youngest of nine, who was teased in grade school for his freakish size, he gained his strength by working on his parents' dairy farm every day after school. "By the end of high school, I was carrying four bales of hay, a hundred pounds each, just walking with them," he said. After making the Olympic squad, he raised some $25,000 from Afton locals for the family trip to Sydney...
Besides the freakish improbability that two of the greatest songwriters of the 20th century should have not only come from England (a country with a virtually nonexistent profile in popular music at the time) but would have come from - and met! - in Liverpool, of all places, the most extraordinary thing about the Beatles phenomenon is the unsurpassed ratio of good songs in their recorded output. OK, we wouldn't be talking about them at all if "Misery" had been their best bid for stardom. And of course, off-the-wall items such as "Wild Honey Pie" only make sense...