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Meanwhile, there is this Sunday to consider. To get to this year's Super Bowl, coming from New Jersey wasn't enough. Coming from a wind tunnel in Flushing also wasn't enough. To be the Cinderella team of 1981-82, you had to come from a swamp in California...
Chicago police traced an Illinois driver's license which was found near Webster's pocketbook and wallet in a Saugus swamp last week, but the license did not lead to any useful information, a University spokesman said last night...
Funeral Games ends the trilogy. The novel opens in 323 B.C. with Alexander, 33, dying of swamp fever in a Babylonian palace. Renault guides us through the property, noting its special features and listing the previous owners. Her description could be a model for Beverly Hills realtors: "Nebuchadrezzar's bedroom, once ponderously Assyrian, had been Pesianized by successive kings from Kyros on. Kambyses had hung its walls with the trophies of conquered Egypt; Darius the Great had sheathed its columns with gold and malachite: Xerxes had pegged across one side the embroidered robe of Athene, looted from the Parthenon...
...defense spending: "The whole question is blatant inefficiency, poor deployment of manpower, contracting idiocy .. . Hell, I think there's a kind of swamp of $10 to $20 to $30 billion worth of waste that can be ferreted out if you really push hard. [But the Pentagon] got a blank check . . .they got so goddamned greedy that they got themselves strung way out there on a limb...
Gossip has always been one of the evil pleasures. It is unworthy, nosy, hypocritical and moralistic, a sort of participatory nastiness. But does it play a heroic moral role hitherto unnoticed? Is gossip merely a swamp that breeds mosquitoes and disease? ("Each man walks with his head in a cloud of poisonous flies," wrote Tennyson.) Or does it have higher functions in the ecosystem...