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...future are told only in retrospect. Nostradamus wrote in 1555: "Beasts wild with hunger will cross the rivers/The greater part of the battle will be against Hister/He will cause great men to be dragged in a cage of iron/When the son of Germania obeys no law." But nobody stepped forth to warn Germans to be on guard against somebody named Hister or Hitler or something along those lines. It was only after Hitler's Germany had devastated Europe that students of prognostication noticed the references to "Hister" and "Germania" and credited Nostradamus with foreknowledge of World...
...skit, a member of the troupe, dressed as a private eye, joked about the changes President Bush has made in the nation's capital. For years Harvard graduates would travel back and forth between Washington D.C. and Boston; now 10,000 Harvard alumni all move in one direction--back to Boston--to make room for Bush's friends from Texas, the detective quipped...
...again and again, the glitterati of Southern California manage to take the world we inhabit, shake it around a little and then filter it through a peculiar, politically correct prism. The result can be viewed in any movie about Washington politics ("The American President," "Dave," "The Contender," and so forth), in which the evil, cigar-smoking and preferably slightly deformed Republicans are defeated by a noble, principled, sexy liberal who just wants to pass a gun control bill, or a full employment bill, or get an atheistic, vegetarian female senator confirmed as vice-president...
...hours, nervous anticipation filled the air as the match scores swung back and forth like a pendulum. The jubilation of an individual win was tempered by the realization that every match counted--in what is usually an individualistic sport, each player felt that the team was all that mattered on this...
While at Harvard, Alexander will have a suite in Cabot House, but will still commute back and forth to Tennessee...