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...subset called the Skyline Pirus. (Black Crips and Bloods gangs, now nationwide, got their start in Los Angeles in the early '70s.) The bonding ritual was a subadolescent mumbo jumbo of slogans and hand signs, like those used by adult fraternal groups. Car theft, drug selling and smash-and-grab robbery (smash a storefront with a car, wait for the glass to settle, and grab the goods) were agreeable moneymakers, but what gave the Crips their legends and their heroes were drive-by shootings in Bloods territory, to avenge real or fancied dissing -- slights to the gang's code...
Everyone's sucking down little potfuls of jambalaya and endless blue glasses of champagne, courtesy of the House. Those with long arms grab quesadillas and chunks of blue-dyed chicken off of platters that seem to float above the crowd, held high by waiters who bustle unseen through the surrounding crush of people. It would be impossible, at this point, to fall, much less move anyplace, because a dense knot of bodies presses in from every direction. More TV camera lights flare up--Entertainment Tonight and CBS--and the room becomes one crowded, sweaty, hyperthermic, and increasingly drunk exercise...
...Harvard's job today is to grab the ball. It cannot rely on science, cannot wait for a favorable Harvard bounce...
Close your mathematics books, boys and girls. Save the grammar exercise and the chemistry lab for tomorrow. It's time to grab Mom and Dad away from their jobs so you can all receive a real educational lesson at the local theater...
Harvard--yes Harvard--has a man or woman to fill competently every single chair around Clinton's new cabinet table. If Bill were to grab his cabinet members randomly from the College's dining halls, faculty lounges and administration building hallways, he'd come up with some real winners for his staff...