Word: shells
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first period we were shell-shocked, to say the least," senior forward Jen Minkus said. "Our previous games had been against much weaker teams...
...tyrant's appeal transfigured a shell-shocked country. Suddenly a hopeless cause became the Great Patriotic War. Even those who hated Stalin -- like the novelist Victor Nekrasov -- remember rushing into combat crying "Za rodinu, za Stalina!" (For the motherland, for Stalin!). The reanimated Russians could also count on a perennial ally: Father Winter...
Harvard can harness this prestige-lust with life-sized cardboard cut-outs of its cultural icons. The endless parade of Yardgoers will gladly shell out 10 bucks for pictures of themselves kissing Rudenstine, draping their arms around John Kenneth Galbraith, rubbing Marty Feldstein's bald pate, giving Alan Dershowitz the finger...
...here's the deal. We eliminate the pretense and sell Harvard MBAs to the highest bidders, regardless of merit. Investment bankers will shell out big-bucks down payments--plus guaranteed percentages of their future earnings--to reserve two-year vacations at the already well-endowed Shangri-La across the river. Their companies will probably chip in, too--hey, prestige is prestige...
While we're at it, we might as well make our well-paid servants lend a hand to anyone willing to shell out the big dough. Force Marty Feldstein to help millionaires with their taxes. Force Seamus Heaney to edit pulp best-sellers. Force Jeff "I'm too busy saving the world to talk to undergraduates" Sachs to clean up a country that has some money, dammit. Force Med School profs to perform celebrity plastic surgery...