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...government ... and a struggle for overcoming prejudice and hatred between one race and another. I believe that has given you not only a special insight but perhaps an additional commitment to bring a resolution between two peoples who have long hated each other." The Egyptian President also had some sage comments on the ups and downs of a head of state's popularity: "When things go bad, you get too much blame. When things go well?I must admit?you get too much praise...
...witty sage who first said this probably did so after watching the Harvard women's tennis team status-quo itself through last season...
...have a car and the inclination, Robert Palmer is playing at Music Hall in Lenox on Saturday. Chances are, however, you will want to save the car for Sunday to see either The New Riders of the Purple Sage (playing that now-ubiquitous LA sound) or Gary Burton (for fine jazz...
...forget who he was and what he did--as soon as they forget the dike bombing and the "secret war" and the wiretappings and the dirty tricks--as soon as they remember only the "New Nixon," humble and repentent, brushing back the bitter tears to offer his countrymen some sage advice--then the man will have won his biggest prize...
...legendary Latin teacher of an earlier Andover who stabbed penknives into his peg leg to express disapproval and made students flush bad translations down the toilet. Wise, in contrast, has a more casual attitude toward the 14 seniors in his class. "I don't act as a sage," says Wise. "Sometimes I lie and dissemble and distort to provoke them, to make it impossible for them to sit there neutrally." He succeeds. The class bubbles on about a Flannery O'Connor story, oblivious to a bright spring morning outside and even to the end-of-class buzzer...