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...Sixteen months ago, I had the fortune, good or bad, to create what can charitably be called a Harvard urban legend...
This year the owners are catching up. Sixteen of 26 arbitration verdicts have gone the way of management, intent on driving down last season's average wage of $412,520. The arbitrator lopped $200,000 off Dodger Pitcher Orel Hershiser's $1 million salary. As for free agents, museum pieces have lost their charm. Reds Shortstop Davey Concepcion, uncoveted elsewhere, had his $900,000 rate cut to $350,000. Reggie Jackson was obliged to come down almost that much to rejoin...
...editor smiled and said, 'Yes.' It was a good weekly arts magazine in that it was a magazine and it was good. The page numbered sixteen, of which there were six added to the Roman numerical standard of ten. There were words on the pages. And still more words. An occasional picture, but mostly words. Except for the ads, of course. Scanning the deserted newspaper office which had no people in it, the editor reflected that these were indeed good words. 'Yes,' a voice somewhere said in a voicelike manner. 'Isn't it pretty to think...
Unable to find other Eliot house residents interested in displaying their art, she decided to just show her own. Currently, sixteen of her drawings are being shown...
...meal following it, are all spiritual offerings to Krishna. Because Krishna respects the sanctity of all life, the devotees are vegetarian. They live according to four basic restrictions, which prohibit intoxication, gambling and illicit sex as well as eating meat. Another requirement is chanting the Hare Krishna mantra sixteen times a day. A mantra, a Sanskrit word combining mind and feeling, is a combination of transcendental sounds which are intended to free the chanter's mind from anxiety...