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...Basement packs a powerful psychological punch. For this reason, it is best not to go alone. Bring a close friend, a significant other, or, if at all possible, your mom. Your mom will love you no matter what dark sides of your personality surface during your expedition. Your mom will recount tales of past triumphs (a pep talk is necessary before entering the arena, especially on crowded days). You mom may have tales of The Basement from a more innocent time. My own mother has a friend who ripped her wedding dress out of another women's arms...
...every fight has to be won with a knockout punch. We're confident that we can win any bout on points alone...
Novelist Nicholson Baker narrowly beat me to the punch with his 1991 account of his obsession with writer John Updike '54, U and I. It was the book which I had planned to write. Baker, an effective chronicler of life's minutiae, paid homage to the novelist whose rendering of America's interior life is yet unmatched...
Much better. The issue of the value of public education has been addressed, but why the insult. The argument speaks for itself; does it need to be preceded by a punch...
...advance. Raising borrowing costs now, they fear, will choke off the budding boom, in part by making purchases of such things as houses and cars harder to finance. Republican Congressman Toby Roth of Wisconsin complained to Greenspan last week, "Many of us feel that you're taking away the punch bowl as the guests are still taking their coats off." But Fed officials liken early moves against inflation to taking away the punch bowl before the party gets out of hand...