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July, Rick Reilly wrote about the time ! he played (of imagined playing) a | wicked 17th hole. After a good drivq, J he punched a five-iron toward the 1 green. “And though 1 never saw it ■ leave the club, it felt as soft as forgot-1 ten margarine.”

An editorial writer for The Wall I Street Journal took a sardonic look at J regulations intended to compel banks | to make risky loans: “Money, of; course, flows around regulation like 1 water around rocks.”

In a piece appearing in the Rocky Mountain News in June, James Lileks flayed the United Nations. “As is \ apparent in Bosnia, the United Nations couldn’t take a water pistol away ffotn | a sleeping 3-year-old. The only thing they can occupy with any degree of success is office space.”

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