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...intention was to stop business as usual and to offer another point of view to what they were doing. As I spoke from the podium I lifted a six-pound zucchini high into the air and said. "Excuse me, gentle people, I believe it is more important to study the 'Zucchini' than it is to study Missiles...
College presidents say many silly things. Who are these people? Why should we care what they say? Let's face it: Most college presidents are losers. Our own Derek Bok may be President of the College, Roscoe Pound Professor of the Law, Curator of the Peabody Museum, head of the oldest self-perpetuating corporation in the Western World, and a published author. But what does the President of, say, Florida State University, do? To quote a customer at Emack and Bolio's yesterday between 3 and 4 p.m., "I don't know...
Fasi, despite his small stature, has developed the reputation as a dirty player. "I don't think I'm a dirty player, just very physical," he responds. "In the hole (the crowded area in front of the goal) I have to play against 200-pound goons. I never start the game thinking I am going to play dirty. But if someone cheap shots me, you have to hit back twice as hard so that they learn to respect you... Now people are apologizing to me, 'Sorry, I didn't mean that Dave'" he laughs. "A links apology never hurt...
...turned-Broadcaster Don Meredith was missing the seedy and inner-city Cotton Bowl, where the Cowboys used to play, and generally lamenting the passing of time. "I made up a saying once," he said. " 'All we gotta do is go down to Neiman-Marcus and buy us a pound of culture and twelve talents.' The attitude was, whatever you want, just go to Neiman's and buy it. They had it right there on the shelf. I think Texas Stadium is Dallas' attempt to buy a pound of culture and twelve talents...
...Problems resulted from budget cuts when building," says Edie Groden, the GSD's director of building services. "They were penny wise and pound foolish, but at the time there simply was not enough money...