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...Monday was a sad day in American computing," declared Doyle Knight, president of New Jersey's John von Neumann National Supercomputer Center. What dismayed Knight was the announcement last week by Control Data, based in Minneapolis, that it would halt its money-losing six-year foray into the growing world market for supercomputers. The decision leaves Cray Research, its crosstown rival and the industry leader, as the only U.S. supercomputer maker at a time when Japan's industry is moving vigorously into the field...
...There's not much difference between Santa Claus and me. We're two overweight, lovable guys that kids really enjoy." --Indiana basketball Coach Bob Knight...
Somehow, I am not excited about the teams in this tourney. Teams like Indiana, with Coach Bobby Knight--the man who thinks women should "lie back and enjoy" getting raped--and leading scorer Jay Edwards, a product of pre-season drug rehabilitation...
Terrible are the humiliations that Shakespeare inflicts on the aging Sir John Falstaff. Stuffed into a hamper of dirty laundry to escape a jealous husband, the portly knight gets ignominiously flung into the Thames. "Oh, oh, oh," he finally cries as the supposedly merry wives of Windsor burn him with their tapers. In setting this black comedy to music, Verdi and his librettist, Arrigo Boito, degrade the hero still further. "Lord, make him impotent," the women chorus as everyone flails and pummels the fallen hero. And yet after his punishment on the stage of the Brooklyn Academy of Music last...
...Bobby Knight has been known to say, the best offense is a strong defense...