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...school chappies as upper-class tyro twits - especially young Andrew, who said of his morning reading material, "I like my newspaper because I've got shares in it" (a comment he later said had been a joke) and volunteered his opinion on pop music: "I think the Beatles are mad because they make too much noise, and their hair style is so bad." Suzy, when asked about black people, replied with a sleepy-eyed smile, "I don't know anybody who's colored. And I don't want to know anybody who's colored, thank you very much." (Seven years...
...nothing at the Pajama Party held at 45 Mount Auburn that Saturday night. Boston-based sororities and frats convened in the anarchy center dressed in little more than teddies and stilettos. The raucous gathering was shut down after a mere 45 minutes. Some Harvard University Band members get mad props for physically duking it out with Yalies who disrespected them on Mass Ave. We heard the ladies had especially nice jabs. An out-of-towner hurled on Hurlbut Street post-Game...
...Syria into the process as well. This was not greeted with glee in Washington. But it should have been. One of America's top strategic interests is to get Iran to behave less like a revolutionary cauldron and more like a traditional nation-state. For the mullahs and their mad President to express a desire for a stable neighborhood is a good first step...
...would be wrong. We agonize over avian flu, which to date has killed precisely no one in the U.S., but have to be cajoled into getting vaccinated for the common flu, which contributes to the deaths of 36,000 Americans each year. We wring our hands over the mad cow pathogen that might be (but almost certainly isn't) in our hamburger and worry far less about the cholesterol that contributes to the heart disease that kills 700,000 of us annually...
There's also the art of the flawed comparison. Officials are fond of reassuring the public that they run a greater risk from, for example, drowning in the bathtub, which kills 320 Americans a year, than from a new peril like mad cow disease, which has so far killed no one in the U.S. That's pretty reassuring--and very misleading. The fact is that anyone over 6 and under 80--which is to say, the overwhelming majority of the U.S. population--faces almost no risk of perishing in the tub. For most of us, the apples of drowning...