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...came down to 1600 meters. Whichever relay team covered that distance in the shortest amount of time would win the meet...
...Path to Power, the 882-page first of three volumes on L.B.J., Caro argues, not always convincingly, that the 36th President illegally ran a blind trust fund from the Oval Office and that his avarice and cunning were rooted in childhood. If, as Emerson wrote, "geniuses have the shortest biographies," Caro has envisioned an L.B.J. who was hardly a candidate for Mensa. With a probable 1,600 pages left to go, Caro has already concluded that Johnson lacked "any consistent ideology or principle, in fact, any moral foundation whatsoever." The book has come under considerable attack from critics...
Nobody believes the present system will last, not even senior government officials and the regime's own political police. This mentality causes officials, from the senior clergy down to the Islamic militiamen, to be corrupt. Everyone is trying to make as much as possible within the shortest time in order to escape before the day of reckoning. Everything is for sale. Any arrest, court order or verdict is negotiable. When rich people-that is, what's left of them-are arrested for whatever reason, a multiplicity of "family friends" turn up, offering to arrange for their release...
...Shortest Stories, Edited by Irving...
...seat to other activities, was stuffed in the trunk by many. Depressing and exhilarating, the era shattered the confidence of the postwar College, and punctured most of the stuffy heritage (and too many of the civilized and gentle men) that always had marked this school. It was probably the shortest lived important era in the College's history. By 1973, the blister had burst, the swelling gone down, the fever broken. William Mattin '72, "I seem to recall another building occupation what was largely ignored during my senior year, but by my graduation in 1972, the seventies, for better...