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...more important, though, was the caliber of the candidates on each side. Pericles didn't run on the Democratic ticket, but the Democrats did field a solid slate. The Republican trenches, on the other hand, were filled by a bunch of losers. In 1980 a whole slew of hacks slid into the Senate on Reagan's coattails, and on very slim majorities. Their time was up in 1986. The Gipper couldn't win this one for them, and they were recalled like so many defective Fords...
With only four minutes remaining in the game, and the Crimson offense still in full gear, senior Mylene Moreno took a pass from Dawson and slid the ball into...
...shrapnel. The wounds validated his manhood, which they had very nearly destroyed. The second explosion came 25 years ago this summer. Early one morning in Ketchum, Idaho, Hemingway (suffering from diabetes, nephritis, alcoholism, severe depression, & hepatitis, hypertension, impotence and paranoid delusions, his memory all but ruined by electroshock treatments) slid two shells into his double-barreled Boss shotgun. Mens morbida in corpore morbido. There was a gruesome ecology in the fact that the last creature Hemingway brought down was himself...
...know how." It began raining, and fat drops played the roof while the two friends played on: "Give me yoh money, baby gal,/ Let me use it for myself." Whiskey pints circled round and round and round the porch. In this fashion, the afternoon slid away, as did most necessary motor skills...
Although the almost $4 billion endowment is soaring at an unprecedented pace--about $100 million a month--fundraising and tuition have had to bear a higher burden in bankrolling the University's costs. While the endowment funded 22 percent of the budget 10 years ago, its share slid to a low of 18 percent last year. At the same time, fundraising has had to cover 3 percent more than its 15 percent share a decade ago, and tuition's share has jumped 6 percent to a 33 percent rate last year...