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Whitley is not one to kick back with the guys. Free time means family time: computer games with Susan, gangster movies with Sybil, history books. He speaks from experience when he says, "If you don't keep family in mind in this business, you lose them." A first marriage fell apart during his early years in corrections, when he had not yet learned to leave the strains of the job at the office. "I had a bad temper," he says. "I'd carry it home and let it rip." Now he refuses to discuss office problems at home...
...commit legalized larceny, but he doesn't have a clue about sugar. Which position would prove most profitable? he wonders. It doesn't matter, Murphy is told. If he favors the program, the sugar producers will fill his campaign coffers; if he opposes it, the candy manufacturers will kick in. Similarly, Murphy is assured, he can make a bundle on either side of the medical-malpractice issue: doctors' groups and insurance companies will fund him if he supports limiting claims; the trial lawyers will be in his debt if he opposes caps. Well, asks Murphy, "if that's true...
Before you scream at the guy on "your" team who just missed the game-winning kick, remember that he isn't a hero--he's just another college student. And there, but for height, aim or the grace of God, could...
...Weld '66 steps up to the stage and makes an announcement. It's House of Blues Day in Massachusetts--well, for two more hours, anyway--and Tigrett commences the jam. And friends, this is the mother of all blues jams. Elwood Blues (Dan Aykroyd) and the Blues Brothers Band kick off the show, followed by delta blues musician Honeyboy Edwards and Robert Johnson's stepson, Robert Lockwood Jr., who learned guitar from the Great One himself. Luther "Guitar Junior" Johnson, a Chicago guitar kingpin who has shared the stage with the likes of Muddy Waters, Eric Clapton, the Allan Brothers...
...make your best guess," Rudenstine said of setting a goal for the drive, which will kick off sometime next academic year...