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Okay, I'll fess up. Last September, it was me who wrote an article in these pages entitled "Redskins, I Can Hail Thee No Longer." Citing Redskins support for Oliver North and and Gibbs' opposition to the Last Temptation of Christ, I wrote that I was "losing my allegiance to the team of my youth." In my most shameful moment, I even lambasted the team for failing to make the playoffs...
Redskins, I hail thee again...
...since George Bush quietly acknowledged last month that "increased tax revenues" would be necessary to reduce the budget deficit, everyone in Washington has been running for cover. No wonder. Louisiana's legendary Russell Long once described raising taxes as a game of "don't tax me, don't tax thee, tax that fellow behind the tree...
...major factor in the problem is the fact that older alumni are the moving forces in Friends groups, and there are few older alumnae of women's sports. However, the problem still remains that thee baseball team gets its spring break trip to California paid for while members of the softball team must fork over more than $400 each to pay their way down to Texas during the same time period...
...would dream of tampering with the majestic music of Britain's national anthem, familiar to Americans as the tune of My Country, 'Tis of Thee. But the words are another matter, in particular the assertive second verse, which calls on the deity to scatter the monarch's enemies, in phrases much admired by Queen Victoria: "Confound their politics/ Frustrate their knavish tricks." Last month the Church of England's Liturgical Commission suggested substituting a kindlier version, written by a London shoemaker in 1836, for use when the anthem is sung at Remembrance Day services for the dead...