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...this compulsion to win-at-all-costs extends beyond the realm of sports. Chuck Colson's infamous "I'd walk over my own grandmother to win an election" statement summed up the Watergate mentality...
Kirkland House? It may sound unbelievable. But to the guys that made up this year's undefeated, unscored upon intramural champs, the thought of a House team drubbing lowly Cornell isn't totally beyond the realm...
More inscrutable, in another sense, is Joyce's correspondence. His letters helped enormously in discovering the schematic layout of Ulysses and some of the obscurities in Finnegan's Wake. But they also open up another realm for the scholars of hither and yon; they sketch out the tracery of ganglia and dendrons that made up Joyce's character, from the tip of his penis to the top of his cerebrating cells. In Richard Ellmann's collection of Joyce letters this sketch becomes fuller in direct proportion to the descent of the nervous charge from the brain to the genitals...
...demise had seemed imminent a week earlier, the transfer of power appeared to present no real problem. Within eight days of the dictator's death, Juan Carlos would have been named King by a joint declaration of the Cortes (parliament) and the 17-member advisory Council of the Realm. But for Juan Carlos to come to full and permanent power before Franco died would have required either 1) the dictator's resignation, or 2) a decree by the Cabinet, ratified by the Cortes and the National Council, stating that Franco was not competent to rule. Encouraged...
...university is a complex community. Its young people and its faculty are involved, in common, in the pursuit of learning. Yet in other aspects, in religions, cultures, values or life-styles there are diversities. A principle of universalism holds in the realm of scholarship. It says that the criterion for the selection of a faculty, and even of students, should be specific to that aim, regardless of other attributes. But the principle of pluralism is a respect for the differences in religion, culture and the like...