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...elections aren't campaigns in utopia. But that's because this republic is run on different principles than Plato's. An American election is a conversation. It tells us what the parties and the voters are willing to say and hear. If it does so with a minimum of muck and outright lying, it has done its job relatively well. This one has. Bring on Dan Quayle and the A.C.L.U. cards...
Quarterback: Wind and rain are the biggest foes Tom Yohe has faced this year. In the muck of The Stadium last week, Yohe completed 13 of 30 passes for 194 yards. He needs 16 yards passing to go over 1000 this season. Yohe has completed 65 of 130 passes this year (exactly 50 percent for you non-math majors) and has thrown six touchdowns and four interceptions...
That perceived peculiarity is double-edged. On the one hand, some Yale alums still cluck over the spectacle of Giamatti's descent from academic grandeur to the commercial muck of professional sports. If there is a life for former Ivy League presidents, it should be conducted as unobtrusively as possible in a reputable embassy or blue-chip foundation. At the other extreme, certain tobacco-chewing, spit-on-the-hands, belly-up-to-the-bar baseball types wonder what in the hell a gabby professor is doing running a league and, next year, the whole show. Oh, yeah, Giamatti. Whattid...
...There is, of course, a lot more muck about Hart that could be raked. It's a dirty job, so somebody is likely to do it. Says National Enquirer President Iain Calder: "To go over the old ground would be tiresome. But we would take a story with a good angle in order to entice the reader. We are checking out phone tips actively...
...Happiness Principle" is the reason for slothfulness, slovenliness, inefficiency, and for all the troubles that have ever plagued studentkind--except of course for why sometimes they awake with their eyes glued shut with gooky muck. No one knows why this happens. But for every other problem, "The Happiness Principle" is the reason. Simply put, it is this: at every moment of intellectual or academic epiphany, joy overtakes the epiphaner such that work must end and celebration must begin...