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...autogyros, helicopters and ornithopters. At 15, he was already winning national model-airplane contests. "At the time I wished that I could be a football hero and a smooth character," he says. "But I now realize that if I had been, I'd be just an overage football jock instead of still plying my trade as a scientist and an engineer...
Jokes like these gave the FCC an excuse to muscle and perhaps muzzle the shock jocks, notably New York City's morning maven Howard Stern. Was Stern hurt by this notoriety? Not at all: his show is now aired also in Philadelphia and Washington. Turn him on, and odds are you can't gulp down your morning coffee before you hear him say "penis." Last year, in the guise of his comic superhero Fartman, he placed a call to Iran and mercilessly berated the poor Shi'ite who picked up the phone. Fans of shock-jock jokery highly prize this...
...pitch travels to the plate in less than a second. Then everyone hangs out for an eternity. During this time, the pitcher rubs the ball, the batter adjusts his jock, the manager spits tobacco on his shoes, the batboy sprints across the field for no apparent reason, the owner sells a racetrack, the designated hitter does a line of coke, the fat slob in the fourth row spills his beer, the usher sells a We're Number One felt finger, the mascot kisses a bikini-clad fan, the general manager exiles a third baseman to Cleveland for a player...
FUNNY, the staff didn't seem to think Harvard was a "jock school" last year...
...even though the icemen didn't win one for Cleary in his last year as head coach, and even though we don't get to claim to our friends that we attend a jock school, don't believe that the year so far has been a total loss. Given Harvard's remarkable success in more intellectual endeavors, we'd take this year over last year anytime...