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...West Point fancies itself a timeless institution and, as graduate Dwight D. Eisenhower remarked on his return to the campus, "Some things never change." On Saturdays, two regiments parade in full dress on the great expanse of the Plain. At morning inspection, a cadet's "tac" (tactical officer) can slap three demerits on him for "messy drawers." Cadets must arrange their books on their shelves in order, from tallest to shortest. Physical education is a graded course and each year a cadet is required to run the obstacle course. They call it the O.C. in public, "the suck" in private...
...away from the podium, during an early morning chat with reporters, Buchwald spoke more thoughtfully--and seriously--about the candidates. He thinks people are just plain bored with them all: 'It's gotten to the point now where I just get the feeling people aren't that interested," Buchwald lamented. "To write humor you've got to have people interested in the subject to start with, and you find in this campaign that whatever humor there is is in the fact that nobody likes either candidate or gives any emotional investment to any of the candidates. That's what...
...required: putting an end to the anomaly by which Canada cannot amend its constitution-the British North America Act of 1867-without the approval of Britain's Parliament. However, by custom even that requires unanimity on the part of the provincial governments, and since the Ottawa conference made plain that this was impossible, the "patriation" of the constitution, as Canadians put it, was out of reach by traditional means...
...when football players use hair dryers in the locker room as he did when they wore crew cuts. "Thirty-five years makes a long time," he reflects. "A lot of good, a lot of bad, some things you did that were smart, some things you did that were plain stupid. Thirty-five years makes a lot of changes...
...feel close to Bryant ("I don't have time to coach individuals any more. I organize; my assistants coach"), but they are devoted to him. Remarks Defensive End E.J. Junior: "Coach Bryant is a father figure to the team. There's never much rah-rah talk, just plain common sense. In that respect, he's one of the best philosophers of life I've ever...