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...events. First came the Harvard-Yale game. The weather had been getting colder and winter jackets were appearing when suddenly, on the day of the game, the weather couldn't have been better. It was pleasant and crisp, and students cavorted in the grass outside the stadium, without a hint of the impending winter. It only made sense that we won; it would have been silly to lose after the sky had been cleared so effectively. Then what about the soccer games? At the first round of the NCAA championships, Harvard won rather dramatically. It was relatively chilly...
...only hint of a student body occurred in between plays when music blared from the sound system...
There is a hint of conspiracy here and even a dash of the apocalyptic. Hicks is no friend to modernity. He fantasizes about the rural "gardens" that were the early boarding schools, safe from the encroaching roads of suburbia. While it is true that suburbia is probably not fertile ground for great-souled heroism, Hicks' negative reaction is uncalled for and even frightening. Hicks has a dangerous vision of the world that he only partially shares with...
...most kids mature as they get older. Experience often proves that self-interest is counter-productive. Even the snootiest suburban teenagers eventually get the hint and start paying attention to others around them. Of course, most adolescents are not that bad to begin with. They may be consumers, but this evil seems fairly tame in an age of gang violence and street crime. Besides, according to all of our recently disappointed supply siders, it is the money of kids like these that keeps our economy going...
...just pay out money to an individual without being sure that the receiver was entitled to it. Besides, the Swiss banks would probably be happy to get rid of the Holocaust funds as soon as possible since the matter is beginning to ruin their reputation. It is unfair to hint between the lines that many of the Swiss bankers, lawyers and accountants dealing with Holocaust fortunes must be crooks...