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...believe this?" Bob Dole said in Dover, New Hampshire, recently. "You ever seen anything like this?" Dole's incredulity was due in equal measure to the huge size of the crowd and the rapt, respectful attention he was receiving. "The rest of the country may think it's early," Dole said. "Up here they know better. This deal's gonna be over in a year...
From jail, the irrepressible faker can be expected to spend his leisure time discoursing to rapt fellow prisoners on his fabulous finagles, the reform policies of the Emperor Augustus and the spellbinding saga of the Honus Wagner baseball card with the $400,000 price tag. Betweentimes he can play Monopoly and catch up on his television. And when he gets out, he may be invited to lecture on collectibles at UCLA...
...Journal, John Cheever wrote, "I dream a movie in full color. It begins on a deceptively decorous note and then moves gradually into a bloody Bedouin war. The audience is rapt until the Bedouins leave the screen and behead all those in the front row. 'Why, it's real!' the survivors scream as they run into the street...
...over campus, the very students the Undergraduate Council is supposed to represent (though Gabay, it seems, has taken his mandate as "to rule") are scratching their heads: does the council try to antagonize us or is its august leadership so rapt with the idea of its own Parliamentary Sovereignty that it couldn't care less about student opinion? After all, when the council's only sins were bumbling and incompetence, most students couldn't have cared less about them. But the insolent and smug dismissal of a petition with strong popular support is enough to halt the council's slide...
...more, the case fits into an almost satisfyingly easy moral mold; the dissipative Harding, the embittered loser in the last Olympiad, and the exalted Kerrigan, the winner, could just as easily be the Wicked Witch and Snow White. The public's fascination with the case is not unlike the rapt attention that little children pay to morally simplistic fairy tales...