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...listened to this argument - actually, just a glimmering throwaway line - during a forum of presidential historians last night at the New York Public Library, an assemblage that included Lyndon Johnson's biographer Robert Caro; Edmund Morris, who did Teddy Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan, and Jean Baker, biographer of Adlai Stevenson...
While Penn was hardly a throwaway, Harvard had an easier time than on Friday's match against Princeton. Except for Doran, who lost to Stejskal 6-4, 6-1, the Crimson swept the singles matches. Lingman beat Barki, 6-2, 6-3, at No. 2 and Swart defeated Robert Pringle at the No. 6 slot, 6-4, 6-2. Green won at No. 3, 6-2, 7-5 over Harwood...
...Tapes over, perhaps 35. __ deferens 36. AMD is shipping this 1 GHz chip 37. Moral __ (BBC program that alleged spy leaks in Kosovo conflict) 38. Coverage co. 39. Pakistan is upset that Clinton is visiting here 42. __ Shui-bian (presidential candidate who supports formal independence for Taiwan) 43. Fruit throwaway 45. Eid al-__ (four-day Muslim feast of sacrifice beginning March 16) 46. __ Chan (Taiwanese Veep who's making a comeback in polls) 47. Jim Furyk's org. 49. Thug 51. Ambulance crew member, for short...
Just don't take any course where they make you read Beowulf," Woody Allen advised Diane Keaton in Annie Hall (1977). The throwaway line elicited laughs from Allen's core audience of college grads, especially the one-time English majors among them who had learned to dread--if not actually read--what they had heard was a grim Anglo-Saxon epic filled with odd names and a lot of gory hewing and hacking...
...affects his political life in all sorts of ways, big and small. One small but revealing example: his speech announcing his presidential candidacy contained a line that began "I have passed from a young man to an old one in the service of my country." It was a throwaway line, a line McCain couldn't have cared less about. If the speechwriter had just discreetly crossed it out, I'm sure he wouldn't have missed...