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Certainly, it is difficult to figure out what, specifically, the founders meant in the broad principles which they wrote into the Constitution. The founders often disagreed among themselves on key issues, and the Constitution consequently embodies numerous compromises, rather than a single original intent. And certainly Madison and company didn't have an opinion on 20th century questions...
...When a new yak dung expert was needed, Harvard raised its glance from its teacup and and cast a look to the horizon, indulgently regarding the faculties of other universities before raiding them for their academic stars. Often enough those bush-league sluggers were only too happy to escape Madison, or Berkeley, or Chicago--places where nice tweeds were hard to find...
...down Madison Avenue, cocaine has become almost a currency in advertising agencies. Coke for models, photographers and artists is buried in budgets. Copywriters use cocaine to jump-start their creative juices. Independent producers supply it to agency representatives on location. In a survey of 300 advertising directors conducted by Advertising Age magazine in August, 45 reported cases in which cocaine had been used as under-the- counter compensation. Sometimes, ad agency employees hire production companies to make commercials only if the firms offer bribes of cocaine...
Recalling his first day at Madison Park, he says, "It was definitely very shocking, principally in the difference of the racial makeup [70 percent Black, 20 percent Hispanic, and 10 percent white] and everything we'd heard about Roxbury. The first thing we saw were two armed gaurds in front of the high school...
...graduate of a Palo Alto, Calif., Fajardo says he has noticed at Madison Park a "much higher priority on the personal side of teaching, being able to gain the respect of students and maintain discipline...