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Eventually, they found two with Suponcic's phone number. One featured a topless brunet wearing only a string of pearls and offering phone calls for "as low as 87 [cents] per minute." The other showed a blond woman advertising "hot amateur wives ready for you from there [sic] own bed." Yikes...
Though he didn't have a cure-all flat-tax proposal, Henry Ford was another millionaire who had an answer for everything. Some of his convictions: "'If you will study the history of almost any criminal, you will find he is an inveterate cigaret [sic] smoker...I do nothing because it gives me pleasure...Most of the ailments of people come from eating too much...Salt is one of the best things for the teeth. And also for the hair...I do not believe in charity...There is something sacred about wages...Reading can become a dope habit...
...satirist with the mere flick of a wrist. For instance, last Thursday morning you could have watched President Clinton, live on cnn from the White House, as he flattered the assembled heads of the American television industry for recognizing that "their creativity and their freedom carries with it [sic] significant responsibility." What with V chips and elections looming, politicians and moguls were all doing their best to appear high-minded. But--in New York City, at any rate--you could have quickly subverted the mood by flipping over to the local Fox station, where Montel Williams, even more ostensibly concerned...
...mail was sent out to the members of my committee by one of the men with whom I was in conflict, "mak[ing] a special note that whether she would lik [sic] to announce it or not, Liz currently has a relationship with the [Select Committee on Undergraduate Requirements] leader and probable Core Committee appointee." My personal relationship with another Council member was, for him, a prime example of the "personality politics going on in the UC." But who was really playing those "personality politics...
...countenance "her disgrace in conferring her highest literary honors upon a barbarian who could not write a sentence of grammar and hardly could spell his own name." Indeed, after receiving the degree, which was presented in Latin, Jackson was said to have responded. "Ex post facto; c pluribus unum; sic scmper tyrannis; quid...