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Harvard Crew: If you did not get to see enough rowing on Head of the Charles weekend three weeks ago, come and see the Tail of the Charles this weekend. The crowd will be smaller and no one will be selling T-shirts, but the Tail means just as much to the Crimson rowers as the Head...
...Tail is the last time that rowers will be competing on the river during the fall season. According to Ivy League regulations, the program starts the indoor phase of its season after the Thanksgiving weekend...
Everything was looking good. At the tail end of a miraculous weekend, the mood was set for a miraculous win over Brown. The question in everyone's minds was: Could it really happen...
...that the pause between rings is exceedingly long in our room. Thus, I often pick up the receiver toward the start of the third pause and am already engrossed in conversation when one of my roommates gets around to answering the phone at what they mistakenly think is the tail end of the long-gone pause. In such cases, a "Hello?" suddenly punctuates my discourse, and I usually decide it's easier to say I'm schizophrenic than to explain what's really going...
This argument is plausible when applied to welfare programs. At least the rich on Social Security do not take benefits away from the needy. Bribing the rich to support a system that screws the poor is surely a case of the tail wagging...