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...sounds like a different country from the one we heard about in August. Then it was a land of plenty, a healthy economy, a sophisticated nation managed by a savvy bunch of Ivy Leaguers who had the full confidence of the world's financial markets. Now it's a heap of trouble, a basket case, a sick economy that's managed by a gang of double- talking bumblers...
...same time, of course, Murphy doesn't hesitate to heap praise on the freshmen who have filled critical gaps on his first Harvard team...
...interim, what's been happening? What few scraps can we salvage from the scrap heap left by the bitter war between owners and players...
Parcells is a football demigod. He is the one of the last of those coaching dinosaur: the disciplinarian. He doesn't coddle the players (like a recently fired Boston coach did) and he doesn't protect them from the media cutthroats. He doesn't heap praise on them or soothe their egos. He screams. And, he does it with artery-popping intensity...
Shame on America. How she has lost her manners in the last century! It's a good thing the French gave us the Statue of Liberty in 1886. Today, we might have melted down the Bartholdi-Eiffel masterpiece and tossed her into a scrap metals heap 10 days after dedication. That's how Americans treat gifts...