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...barely more than a practice race every year," Higginson said. The aim is to beat the Lions by as much as possible and then compare margins with Princeton. Last year on the Harlem River a rock thrown from the shore put a Crimson rower out of commission just before the race, but even that could not alter Columbia's fortunes...
Massachusetts' remaining Yankees--the Sargents and the Saltonstalls--fare no better, as their isolated indifference and calculated impotence is attacked. Lupo sees the Yankees as content to control the city through its finances, operating from plush State Street bank offices, escaping to North Shore farmhouses and summer homes on the Cape. In one of the more effective vignettes in the book, Lupo juxtaposes a Republican-sponsored cocktail party in placid Dover with the frantic, non-stop efforts of Kevin White to cool the city down...
...activity or is it just a bad dream I'll opt for two of the latter on cissel or is it sissel bubby I can't really believe it but the Ramones are back on tax day and the next day at Salisbury Beach wherever that is follow the shore line I suppose and what did you do during the war wrote rock caps I suppose well buddy you suppose wrong I am your collective conscience the boys you sent off to fight in the trenches and we won't be back til it's over over over there...
...decision to send emergency aid to Zaire cannot help but bring back memories of American involvement in Vietnam, where a decision to support a corrupt regime finally alienated the entire population from the United States. The American public should scrutinize American involvement in Zaire carefully before permitting Vance to shore up Mobutu's regime. And the much heralded shift in American policy in Africa should be scrutinized equally carefully, because for all Carter's rhetoric about human rights, at the moment his foreign policy seems based on premises that are dangerously parallel to those that led previous administrations to support...
...into the narrow hole. During the twelve hours off, the roustabouts spend most of their time sleeping, although they can also fish for baby sharks and sand trout or watch the latest porno movie on closed-circuit television. After each 84-hour work week, the crew is ferried to shore for a week's vacation. Pay for a novice can reach $10,000 for six months...