Word: travels
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...third of what remains be removed. This is a sort of pre-emptive judicial Bobbitt-lopping. Let the justice system and its surgeons play Zeno's Paradox on the rapist's johnson and see how many offenses he is equipped for. (Zeno's Paradox, of course, states that a traveler going from, say, New York to San Francisco must first travel half the distance between the two cities, and then must go half the distance between that point and the destination, then half the distance again, so that, by this logic, he will never arrive where he wanted...
...began innocently enough when a travel agent said to me, as if guilelessly, "Since you're taking all these flights, why don't you sign up for a Frequent Flyer program? It's easy, it's free, and you can earn free tickets. Since you're traveling anyway, you've got nothing to lose." That is how it always begins: "Bill, have you heard about this new kind of glue? They say it has the most incredible effect." And then the sudden fall. "I guess it can't hurt. They say everyone is doing...
...Directors of for-profit trade schools and colleges have looted the budgets of these loosely regulated Federal student aid programs to buy themselves Mercedes-Benzes, travel the world, subsidize a drug habit, invest in religious causes or pay themselves million-dollar salaries...
HAVE SYLLABUS, WILL TRAVEL...
...Snowden takes this frame of mind into the rest of the season. This weekend the Crimson travel to Cornell and then Columbia, and the sky is the limit for Snowden...