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there couldn’t be many other cases in human history of a person his age tossing around dollars in the amounts he was tossing them without much adult supervision, or the usual constraints of corporate life. A board of directors, for instance. “It’s unclear if we even have to have an actual board of directors,” said Sam, “but we get suspicious glance

And as small, liberal arts schools have folded—at least 200 since 1990—they have been replaced with corporate, for-profit universities. There are now some forty-five colleges and universities listed on the NYSE or the NASDAQ. The University of Phoenix, the largest for-profit school with some 300,000 students, proudly calls itself on its Web site: “

I was punching so far above my weight by merely hanging with these guys that I didn’t want to blow it by whining about how if we went to Times Square we could end up on the wrong end of a dude like Ramrod, the star of the exploitation pay-cable classic Vice Squad.

Researchers so far had improvised their labs. To pipe carbon dioxide into a room with viral cultures, for example, one virologist had indelicately used a screwdriver to smash a hole in the drywall so he could pull a rubber tube from the room with a carbon dioxide tank into the lab with the cultures. This is modern science? Francis wondered.

His first action on reelection was to set about removing all treasonous works from the city’s schools and libraries. Thompson appointed a theater owner and former billboard changer named Sport Hermann to purge the city’s institutions of any works that were less than “100 percent American.” Hermann appointed a body called the Patriots’ League to dec

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It was left, then, to cast Sharpton, and for Sharpton to cast himself, as the Outrageous Nigger, the familiar role—assigned sixty years ago to Father Divine and thirty years later to Adam Clayton Powell—of the essentially manageable fraud whose first concern is his own well-being.