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Campaign (semi-)endorsement of the week: "I'm sort of supporting Al Gore, which is bizarre. I don't trust the guy as far as I can throw him. He's a conservative liberal, but I think he's going to chew up George W. and spit...
...houses and there's a point at which they're going to be able to retire and not have to do it anymore-and it's not too far from now. For 40 years old, some of them could retire today, and many of them will be able to semi-retire in 10 or 15 years. I'll still be struggling to pay the rent. But I've got a lot of stories. And I've got a legacy of music that seems to matter to some people. That's something...
...think of me as Dr. Drew, Dear Abby, Anne Landers, and Adam Corolla rolled up into one--although that would be a hideously ugly person. (Please send any future submissions to bleeve@netscape.net-this could become a semi-regular thing, if enough good letters accumulate...
...champagne at the home of Kenan Government Prof. Harvey C. Mansfield Jr. '53, is that Harvard has no Division I sports teams. (Apparently lacrosse and swimming don't factor into his equation. Hockey, at least, merits a brief mention: "I'm so glad that so many of these Canadian semi-pro hockey players can all score the median 1480 SAT to get into Harvard," Wolfe chided a Kennedy School gathering). More specifically Harvard was not groomed with the state school charm where Division I basketball players and footballers strut like kings, secure in the knowledge that the university holds them...
...flung against the lockers in junior high. In his talk of masculinity, surely there is some envy of more manly types. John Wayne, or even Norman Mailer, would surely pashaw at Wolfe's own practice of manliness. Wolfe is not Truman Capote, however. He was once an athlete, pitching semi-pro baseball. Despite his age, he shows off his virility in his young children. His manliness is of a particularly southern variety, the flamboyance of an aristocrat, albeit affected in Wolfe's case...