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...running mate, he conducted a campaign that was the very model of self-effacement. He said so little of national interest that a reporter for the Los Angeles Times once phoned his editors to discuss a Bush story, was put on hold and fell asleep; when the reporter woke up six hours later, he found he was still on hold...
Yesterday's game showed the extremes of which the Harvard team is capable. Dormant and uninspiring for most of the first half, the Crimson eleven woke up with the second-half appearance of junior forward Mauro Keller-Sarmiento and played its best soccer of the season...
...indeed, I am, out of my wages.' So then I felt I had behaved badly and could only atone by giving a lot of wine to the mystery man, so I took him up the street to my club and we drank heavy and I woke next day with the vague but persistent impression that I have promised to go to the war in Algiers for him. Not at all what I wanted...
...engineer, succumbed to the temptation of a local lady while on a job in Asia and woke one morning to find a cluster of ugly red sores on his penis. Subsequently divorced, he acquired a new lover and learned that he had given herpes to her. Says he: "I regard myself as a carrier of an invisible, incurable disease. I have a guilt trip that won't quit...
...days, when the rats would murder pigeons on the roof above his bed. No happy Miracle-on-34th-Street memories of his city childhood; instead, the central figure is one Dr. Frankfurt, the local dentist. "Frankfurt would just ram the ether mask over your puss and when you woke up there was enough metal in your mouth to set off the alarm at the airport. Then on the way out he'd hand you a lollipop to make sure you'd be back real soon. In fact, Frankfurt was the only dentist he had ever seen who had a sign...