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Most anyone referring to Valentine's Day will tell you sappy tales about romantic evenings or fourth-grade kisses behind the oak tree. Some will plea for pity because they haven't ever had a date. It's safe to say that your average American male will always manage to blurt out one story or another...
...California two years ago, where he runs recording studios and studies the teachings of an Indian guru. And then there is Stone, Roger's manager, who favors lobster dinners and snakeskin boots and spent years sharing the road and mountaintop commune of the heavy-metal boogie band Black Oak Arkansas...
Donna Marie Wisener's suffering at her father's hand started at age two and continued into her teens. To mark his displeasure, he threw oak logs at her; for amusement, he handcuffed her to a chair. Just as bad for the Tyler, Texas, girl was the sexual abuse. Her father would send her lewd Valentines -- "I would like your heart and I assume the rest of you will follow" read one message -- and give her "rubdowns." The agony culminated one evening when her father threw her against the wall, hitting her on the head over and over. He also...
Meanwhile, the old editor mused in the alternative "Oak Leaf" that Friday about the mindset of his detractors: "I can imagine your feeling that you're...not quite smart enough unless you can say, 'Excuse me, but, I find that really offensive,' to at least five people per day." The Heirs didn't understand the Randoms, and the Randoms didn't say much...
Does the controversy over the Adams House "Oak Leaf" really warrant massive changes in College's housing system and its attendant effects on student life? No, not really, not on its own. It wasn't much of a controversy, after all--if it were, you would have read about it on these pages weeks...