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...military genius, our native American intelligence, proved itself again. One hundred hours and we beat those tricky camel jockeys to a pulp. And what was our military strategy based on? Football. Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf and his staff devised the plan, and called it a "Hail Mary," sending our troops around the western edge of the Iraqi emplacements and sneaking up on them from the back. The more appropriate football term would have been "end run," but American coaching got it right anyway...
...something for everybody. Britain could claim that it was still master of its monetary and labor policies. France could point to a firm timetable for establishing a single currency for the European Community's other 11 members. Germany, among the most Euro-minded of the Community states, could hail the birth of a "European union." And the most impoverished brethren in the group -- Greece, Ireland, Spain and Portugal -- had won the promise of money transfers from the rich states to the poor...
...Hail to the New Chief of Staff...
...HAIL HARVARD'S new expert on homosexuality. His name is Robert K. Wasinger '93, and while he admits he doesn't know any gays at Harvard personally, he says a couple of his high school friends from Kansas have been "pushed into homosexuality or whatever" since leaving for college. "I don't see why homosexuals at Harvard should be any different than homosexuals anywhere else," Wasinger told me. So you can see that he knows what he's talking about...
...population where schoolchildren learn the meaning of chanterelle and shiitake before they study the alphabet. Beer can come in a bottle with a champagne cork, and spaghetti automatically means fennel-raspberry pasta. To ask for a glass of ordinary tap water or regular coffee is to admit that you hail from Tulsa. Pretentious readings of bogus poetry have now been supplanted by SF Net, a coffeehouse computer linkup that enables pseudo avant-gardists to cross-chat electronically over their caffe e latte...