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...Bill Bradley is wont to say, anyone the public deifies will necessarily be demonized by that same body...
After all, I thought, Lyndon Johnson was able to make it through a nationally televised speech declining a second term as president of the United States without bawling. And though it's true that Hanselman is a sensitive '90s man--and sensitive '90s men are wont to shed a tear in public now and then--it's also true that the council presidency isn't quite as big a deal as the presidency of the United States. Hanselman's unabashed display of vulnerability, I thought, was nothing but a cheap publicity stunt...
Take last Saturday. I was sitting in my room, doing one of those take-home labs that Physics 15b is wont to assign. I had just scared my finger on the soldering iron that I was less-than-deftly using when the phone rang. It was fellow Crimson sports editor Eric Brown...
When "the dictators"-as President Clinton is wont to call them-get the message that their ticket has been punched, they won't have without a fight. Not a fight in the traditional sense, but other more violence aimed at leaving a few American soldiers deal and turning American public opinion against the Haitian adventure. This is a storm that the administration must weather. The good of the Haitian people and the credibility of American foreign police are intertwined. To back down would do serious damage to both...
...somewhat heavy-handed lampoon of the American health- care system -- bad Joseph Heller, say. It gets worse. If Murphy is furloughed for the prolonged pre-transplant regimen, afterward he would return to prison. Would he be furloughed promptly again if a heart became available unexpectedly, as donor hearts are wont to do? The Bureau of Prisons says he would be. Murphy has his doubts. Doctors see a logistical snarl that could hopelessly compromise the success of the transplant. The authorities shrug. "The Bureau of Prisons doesn't have a hang-up," explains Robert McFadden, executive assistant to the warden...