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...There is no end to our effrontery. In Arizona a mutant Chinese grass carp, the sterile triploid amur, has been released into the ponds and water hazards of golf courses to keep the water free of entangling weeds lest golf balls be lost or the scenery spoiled. An African fish, the tilapia, cruises irrigation canals devouring any growth that might impede the water flow, but it endangers the Colorado River's sport fish. Coast to coast, European starlings darken the skies. A century ago, the first few were released in New York City by a reader of Shakespeare bent...
...lest we descend into geocentrism, it's important to remember that for all the City of Brotherly Love's lack of Brotherly Loyalty, there is always one group more lazy and superficial in their sports analysis: pollsters. They may be expert columnists, ready to regurgitate minute trivia, or coaches reared on nothing but Gatorade and Knute Rockne speeches. But give them a vote in a poll, and they're no more principled or sophisticated in their analysis than the average Yankee...
...only reachable conclusion from this travesty: stay away lest you be duped into spending $6.75 by the superstar halo perched on Steve Martin's white-haired head...
...suggest a strong government role in designing insurance coverage. According to HIAA spokesperson Richard P. Coorsh, "we are asking that the federal government play a part...to help determine what should be in a standard package." And the Times urges that doctors be allowed to join only one plan lest the competitive aspects of managed competition be neutralized. Whether physicians will breathe more easily under managed competition or a Canadian-style system remains an unsettled issue...
...that the victimization of the fathers may lead to a certain moral blind spot in the sons. So, in judging the present emotion-filled crisis of the refugee presence in Germany, it seems to me all the more necessary to strive for an evenhandedness and objectivity in our judgment, lest yet another tragic lesson of history be re-enacted in our time -- namely, that all ethnic and religious hatreds and tragedies perpetuate and reinforce one another...