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...common image of the Justices as nine fiercely independent men has much truth in it, but tends to obscure a more important reality: that those same nine men must rub and scrape against one another, again and again, to come up with decisions that, ideally, at least five can agree on. In that process, one or two exceptional minds can make a considerable difference since the amount of cross-pollination is extensive. Every Friday during the term, the Justices closet themselves in a conference room and engage in what must be the most exciting weekly exchange of ideas...
...long ball. Seniors Pete Varney and Dan DeMichele were extremely dangerous not just because of their 400 batting averages but because they meant a possible run or two every time they stepped to the plate. Without them, Harvard lacks a player who with one swing of the bat can rub out a three-run deficit...
Last year Indira Gandhi fired Soviet-lining Foreign Minister Dinesh Singh and replaced him with the genuinely neutralist Swaran Singh (no kin). Said one Indian Foreign Office source: "Under Swaran Singh we evolved a new style toward the U.S. which did nothing to rub America the wrong way." The U.S., however, rubbed India very much the wrong way when the Pakistani civil war broke...
...your goddamn Don't Look Back are all about, aren't they? Face it, man, you step on their heads and they love it, you cut them up in little ribbons, that science student. that Sheriff's Lady and they kiss your ass. I saw Joan Baez rub your head, I saw those English chicks giggle at you, hell, I even saw Donovan look at you funny, what is it that you've got, man? I'm sure waiting for that fucking book of yours to be ready. maybe you can fail at something...
...Fine Arts, where each muses over the exhibits and applies his particularly aesthetic standards to them. Kane, for instance, rhapsodizes to his daughter, "This is it, Mary Anne, the hub of the hub of the "universe. Culture! The reason you're here is to let some of the culture rub off on you. Culture has to do with responsibility..." Many Anne doesn't reply, but as they wander through the Museum, she keeps repeating in awe to herself, "Dynamite! Dy-na-mite...