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Still Matt acknowledges that even freshmanyear, he had moments of pure, unmitigatedobnoxiousness just for the sake of beingobnoxious...
...tuned rants on topics like the cult of celebrity. "Michael Jackson," he fumes, "one of the five weirdest people on the planet earth -- and the other four are his brothers. And while we're on the subject, why do I even know Tito Jackson's name, for Christ's sake? . . . The irony of Andy Warhol's statement is that many of our present-day celebrities can't even fill the 15, folks. And we don't seem to mind...
...fans' sake, we need more teams selling shares directly to the public, the way the Green Bay Packers and the Boston Celtics did. Green Bay is a nonprofit organization, so owning a Packers share is like supporting the local museum. The Celtics is a limited partnership, the only team that trades on the New York Stock Exchange...
...forget the essential role an independently strong Afro-American Studies department played in their appointments. Nor should we necessarily settle for one tenured female African American. This is not a matter of politically correct tokenism. A diverse faculty has influence within and beyond the classroom, sorely needed for the sake of balance...
John Kennedy -- rich and handsome, a golden boy married to a beautiful and accomplished woman -- said that "life is unfair." Well. Even later, one thought that in Kennedy's case, it might have been a good idea, for the sake of clarity, to rinse off any residue of self-pity and change "Life is unfair" to something like "The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away...