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Frankly, being or not being on the Undergraduate Council does not bear much significance in my personal life. I am not an egomaniac politician. Nor am I a "Gov jock" looking for resume-related experience. I am not asking for another set of elections, either (even though any sane person would agree that there are legitimate gounds for doing...
Artsy fartsy turned social butterfly. Emergedfrom reclusive crew-jock status to take over theLampoon and sign on with the elite of the Puddingand the Fly Club...
...that Washington isn't a good place to visit or to do an internship. The Institute of Politics would never lie to you, would it? How could D.C. remain the Gov jock Mecca for every University in the country if it didn't deliver? As thousands of Harvard students will tell you, a job there can be awesome. For one thing, the entire city is run by people under age 30, so professionals who actually have important things to do can be duped into taking you seriously--even though your job is only picking up your boss's dry cleaning...
...result of all this high financing and finagling is a redistribution, from poor fans to richer ones, of the baseball-going experience -- jock Reaganism. The luxury boxes introduced at the Houston Astrodome in 1965 are now a moneymaking fixture in most parks; the Toronto Blue Jays mint $35 million a year from leasing Skyboxes -- more dens for the haves to entertain the other haves. Someday a town might build a stadium consisting of a thousand skyboxes and six rows of bleachers. It would suit the owners -- men who seem bent on making baseball a pursuit to follow...
They're baa-ack. After a vacation for NBC's Olympic fortnight, Jay Leno returns to The Tonight Show to find his competition with late-night rival Arsenio Hall fiercer than any jock grudge match. Consider the events. The javelin backstab. The 100-m bad-mouth. Synchronized sniping. Follyball. And -- given Leno's 33% ratings advantage over Hall -- the uneven parallel talk shows. Who needs Barcelona? These are the games of summer...