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If college had remained less important--it once was: Andrew Carnegie for example was dismissive of college graduates--it would have mattered less just what the standards for admission were.
The quotation that follows “A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on” though reminds us of an earlier political time when visionary ideas mattered more than gossip to the media commentators (see page 111 for details of boat trips from Downtown).
These proxy fights mattered because real fights were too dangerous.
Then, for a second I thought there was a typo involved and you were actually speaking of Maher, as in Bill, from Politically Incorrect . But I couldn't imagine out why he mattered to you so much that you were gleefully remarking on his inclusion in Time . Not wanting to own up to being either ignorant or unhip, I never said a word, even though I still wanted to in my first letter this morning.
Why didn't Larry Flynt tell us about it when it mattered?