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...Duke of Wellington is said to have observed, "The battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton." This statement reflects a recognition that teaching and learning can occur in many places and that work need not be contrasted with play. The ultimate test is whether youngsters grow up to be decent human beings and whether, when it is their turn, they can successfully transmit values and practices to their offspring. Recent talk that parents do not matter is highly misleading. We do matter, especially when it comes to inculcating discipline, respect, responsibility, core values. Perhaps we cannot...
...even close: Libidinous pursuits accounted for a feckless 1.7 percent of the million-odd calls to Scoot over the past five months, in marked contrast to the numbers typically racked up by sex searches on Internet-only systems. Besides pizza procurement -- the runaway winner -- other popular query topics up Waterloo way include travel and party locations. In other words, directions to Domino...
...subjects around the world commemorate Guy Fawkes Day. Disgruntled papist Guy Fawkes thought he was going to end 70 years of Protestant oppression by blowing up the Houses of Parliament and the King in 1605. Little did he know that his foiled Gunpowder Plot would take its place alongside Waterloo, the Studebaker and New Coke as one of the most spectacular failures in world history...
Watergate was the Waterloo of presidential truth. In 1976, 70% of Americans agreed in a national poll that the country's leaders consistently lied to them. This from a nation brought up on Parson Weems' smarmy fable about young George Washington's perfect truthfulness. Honesty has been a casualty in the eyes of Americans ever since. Today, Bok notes, the public sees a politician's clever dodge as no different from a big fat lie. We're defining deception downward...
Well, in the Bahamas, probably one of two places: The Zoo or The Waterloo--charmless nightclubs that would serve their purpose just as well if they were located in the middle of a warm swampland. What have Spring Breakers been doing there? Getting drunk and doing what they would like to do, but cannot, here, such as "freaking" whomever catches their eye, rushing like lemmings to the loudspeaker call of "Free shots at the back bar!" (which is coming from a communal SCUBA tank), or best of all, competing...