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...would like to see pressure applied against a bitter and oppressive regime have the means and the freedom to persuade those in a position to take such action, we further our cause by pursuing peaceful paths. Rallies, debates, circulars, and meetings are inevitably more trustful than needless and unjustified conformation. The only result for which the can hope is the alienation of those of which the letter can hope is the alimentation of those of moderate views...
...Needless to say, this is an allegory for Steinbrenner's New York Yankees, once the proudest team in baseball, now merely the highest paid. Bringing back that "reformed" fist baller and dehydrated bibber Billy Martin for a fourth term as mismanager, Steinbrenner has taxed the credibility of even the New York Post. Sometimes it seems that this former anonymous shipbuilder from Cleveland owns more than 37 1/2% of the Manhattan tabloids. He hovers over the + city like the Hindenburg. In quivering type befitting a disaster, his name is a standard headline: GEORGE EXPLODES. NO SURVIVORS...
...prevent those tumults and disorders which are frequently consequent upon any confideable member of the students being together at entertainments, as well as to guard against extravagance and needless expense, all undergraduates are prohibited from making any festive entertainment in the College or its vicinity," according to the laws of 1763, a very distant precursor of today's student handbook...
...Needless to say, wine, liquor and tobacco were prohibited in undergraduate rooms, and kegs were absolutely not allowed in bathtubs. Furthermore, any schollar caught playing Crazy Eights or Double Solitaire or throwing dice with his chambermate could expect to add five shilling to Harvard's endowment. Get caught a second time, and it was a public confession...
...Needless to say, he leads the staff...