Word: letting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...response to the journalistic junket of Michael Stankiewicz entitled "Walsh Transactions Criticized" in the August 18, 1989 issue of The Crimson, let the following be noted...
...bridge loan to Donald Drisdell, let the record show that this loan was given to allow Mr. Drisdell to fund the purchase and repair of a piece of property in Cambridge, and not in Somerville, as was reported erroneously in the article...
Three weeks ago, the fans were dogging us everywhere we went...Fuck V. Fuck the fans. We need to win this game for us...Today we have to put aside all the differences between black and white, who's playing and who's not, and let's go out there and give it a shot--for us. Scrap everyone else--school pride and all that garbage. Let's just try to play one game one time for us, just like the old days prior to the start of the season when we used to go down...
...cynical one is hardly original: drop the facade, face the music and pay the players their market value. Rather than let Nike pay Valvano $150,000 to force his players to wear Nike equipment on the court (And planes--for "team unity," according to Valvano.), let the "amateurs" endorse their own products. This plan, of course, will never happen...
Although reading dust-jacket review clips is a filthy habit which I wouldn't encourage in anyone, it was the back of this book which drew me in. (The front cover is incredibly ugly; don't let it deter you.) One of the best of English travel writers (who has also done some exploring of our America, in Old Glory, a fabulous journey down the Mississippi), Jonathan Raban, describes her earlier work as a "romance with America itself, its infinitely possible geography, its license, sexiness, and violence." The description clearly fits this new novel, and romance is a well-chosen...