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Miami today-with its muggings, choked freeways, dirty air, foul water. littered beaches and sky-high housing prices-looks a lot like the New York City I left four years ago. It is time we shed our farmer fantasies, stay put and start making our cities work. Running away doesn't solve problems...
More often than not, Diggins prefers the easy, superficial one-liner to the serious argument. He quotes Edmund Wilson's succinct and moronic explanation of Dos Passos' conversion: "On account of Soviet Knavery/He favors restoring slavery." and asks "Fair or foul?" The reader can almost hear Diggins giggling in self-satisfied delight. Elsewhere he is simply pretentious. In an account of Buckley's attempts to reconcile Catholic theology with free-market economic precepts, Diggins intones solemnly, "Indeed conservatism, capitalism, and Christianity present an impossible synthesis." His penchant for constant alliteration, even when it requires the use of inappropriate words...
With about ten minutes remaining, leading scorer Kevin McLaughlin hit a 20 footer and a subsequent foul shot, giving the Classics a 47-35 lead to put them on their...
While the histrionics of Mr. Curry et. al. were glorified to the point of making it appear the game was an intramural scrimmage, the fact remains that Eliot missed 15 foul shots. It's true we took the pipe, but to imply we were outclassed...well, discuss it with a Leverett player...
...supposed to be such a close game last night but inconsistent play by Leverett and 18 foul shots out of a whopping total of 33 attempts kept Eliot in the game...