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...hope that no one mistakes my intentions. I have no desire to ruin tradition or spoil anyone's fun. But President Schmidt has expressed to me his fears that the recent turbulence over the Supreme Court is not only wreaking havoc on the stock market and consequently the endowment, but is also scaring away alumni donators in droves. Further lewd conduct, we fear, will only discourage even more donations. Let's make a good impression on Harvard and our old timers. Keep your clothes on for a change, Saybrook. The Yale Police Department November...
...past couple of weeks, the nation has watched itself roll toward ruin because people were losing their money in bales. If one were tasteless enough to ask a big loser what exactly he was losing, he would sputter, incredulous, "What am I losing? My boat! My car! My home, my beautiful home! My children's educations! Expensive schools! My clothes! My dinner! My dollars!" All true, every sorrowful word. People have been mourning the passing of their money for all the things that money can do, and what money can do is impressive. Money can build cities, cure cancers...
...Clinton (D-Ark.) and Michael Castle (R-Del.), leaders of the lobby for national welfare reform, said most governors now agree that the country needs more employment training programs and other incentives to get people off of the welfare rolls. But they said congressional priorities and presidential politics may ruin the chances for such changes this year...
Just when your team is driving the ball down the field as well as it has all day, they ruin the play. And then...
Players who return while the strike is in progress "would be selling out and I don't think they could look at themselves in the mirror," Baty said. "It would be stupid for anybody to do that. It would ruin their relationship with the rest of the players...