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...RARE meeting with students a couple years ago, Dean Rosovsky took his pipe from his mouth and answered a question. It was one of the usual queries he fields at such events--why, the student asked, don't we, the people that this place supposedly exists to serve have more a voice in deciding who gets tenure or what goes in the Core Curriculum? And Rosovsky put his pipe on the table and tapped it gently and then, in what has become an oft-quoted remark, declared: "Because you are here for four years, I am here for life...
...Leopard" around Chicago, was yelling like a madman--so loud that I couldn't even hear the captain call the shots when the team was in place on the line of cribbage. So, even though it was Papa Tiger sitting behind me, I turned around and told him to pipe down. I mean, just because he is the Bears' team doctor, it doesn't give him a right to go around yelling at the top of his lungs so no one else can hear what's going on. But, then, you know what they say--poor Uncle Hal is losing...
...that prince of the Enlightenment, left the 19th century muttering about his illegitimate children by Sally Hemings, and about his nephews Lilburne and Isham Lewis, who murdered a slave on the Kentucky frontier. Andrew Jackson's wife Rachel was widely satirized as a country clod who smoked a pipe. Mary Todd Lincoln, a sad and slightly unhinged woman, went on shopping sprees that left her $27,000 in debt by 1864. Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt suffered posthumous humiliations at the hands of their own children. Seven years ago, Elliott Roosevelt wrote a book discussing his father's love...
...gift in the mail from an unknown admirer. After ripping open the package, he awkwardly pulled the book it contained out, away from his body. That move probably saved his life. Inside the hollowed-out copy of Sloan Wilson's novel Ice Brothers was a spring-activated pipe bomb filled with explosive black powder and pieces of shrapnel. Because the bomb exploded a few feet away, Wood survived, though suffering heavy lacerations on his legs and chest...
...field's professional association, the American Society for Industrial Security, has increased 133% in the past five years. A New York State chemical firm uses helicopters to move officials in and out of headquarters, both for business trips and commuting. Security at Houston's United Gas Pipe Line Co. was beefed up this year after a former employee armed with a loaded gun and a hand grenade held two high executives hostage in their office for three hours...