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After 75 years, it is time for sports fans to wise up and realize that baseball has moved from fair play and fantasy to a more disturbing reality...
...said the book does not entirely succeed inrecreating the atmosphere of the 1960s in whichkey decisions were made. But he said that it wasan "extraordinarily useful and wise book...
...these principles and traditions, ambiguous and politically flexible as they have always been, led the "Best and the Brightest" man to throw the nation into a decade of turmoil, destroying a whole generation physically and psychologically. Seeing the mistake snowballing into a tragedy, wise people cried out, protested, and ended up suffering the most. McNamara caused it all, then left office, took the helm of the Ford Motor Company and went to the World Bank, where he became an excellent leader again, and is now safe and sound, his hair still slicked back as 30 years ago. Hey, think about...
...Dean Jewett decides in favor of randomization, the housing system will have swung, in the course of the past 60 years, from one end of the spectrum to the other; from total choice to no choice. In this case, Dean Jewett would be wise to take Aristotle's advice and choose the golden mean: the current system...
...reality is that lay-offs would further deplete a guard service that has already lost 10 percent of its force to attrition. That would mean fewer familiar faces for students. And financially, the move would be penny-wise and pound-foolish. A smaller unit means more guards would have to do extra shifts, which would force the department to foot the bill for expensive overtime hours...