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...actually a rescue mission for the shaky, uniquely corrupt and autocratic regime of Mobutu Sese Seko in Zaire. Even with the hundreds of millions of dollars in military aid that the U.S. has pumped into Mobutu's army, it broke and ran in the face of a few thousand Katangan rebels, and had to be bailed out by the French and Belgians. Mobutu's latest pronouncement on the subject was his call this week for a "foreign defense force" for the copper mines in Katanga--a euphemism for mercenaries and more bail-outs...
Nyiregyházi's memory seemed infallible, and his slender, tapered fingers seemed to master compositions effortlessly. After playing a piece two or three times, he would have it memorized. (He still has more than a thousand works, including his transcriptions of symphony movements and arias, at his fingertips.) Nyiregyházi proved so extraordinary a child prodigy that the Psychological Laboratory in Amsterdam began a four-year study of him when he was seven. It found that his precocity was similar to that of the child Mozart. At eight, he read all of Shakespeare in German translation...
rigged with half a dozen Gatling guns programmed to aim and fire simultaneously, raining eight thousand rounds a minute into an area the size of a football field, driving a bullet into every six inches of ground. As this lumbering weapons sytem circles a battlefield, the stream of lead is played back and forth like a murderous garden hose; all exposed living creatures...
This is what the Faculty should be talking about. Solving a few of these problems would serve the interests of undergraduate education far more than the composition of ten thousand new rules and regulations. But ethereal contemplation followed by bickering over the elegance of brand new schemes and systems is more fun and much easier than grappling with reality...
...pomp and ceremony. I would change nothing. Besides ceremony being a major and important aspect of monarchy, something that has grown and developed over a thousand years in Britain, I happen to enjoy it enormously...