friday, September 25, 198t
daily nebraskan
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Yachting. . .
Continued from Page 4
Fortunately, our yacht boasts a hot shower in the
middle of the one tiny bathroom aboard. Unfortunately,
we can't use it as we are chronically short of water. Our
captain allows us half a cup, though, in which to brush
our teeth, shave, bathe and do our laundry.
We then fish in the chill waters of the ice chest for eggs
and whatnot which we cook on the tiny, little, are-you-sure-it-wont-blow-up?
stove. Then we eat in the joyous
sunrise in the cockpit. If it isn't raining.
Heigh-ho, it's time to weigh anchor! The anchor weighs
116 pounds. Amidst gay cries of "Loot out for that
rock!" "Back her down, for Chrissakes!" and, from
Glynda, "Do something!" We idle rich are off on another
merry day of yachting.
Some days we have a spanking breeze. Other days we
are lucky. If we have a spanking breeze, we must hoise
sail, about seven hectares of it. On a 40-foot yacht, you
don't merely pull on a line to hoise sail. You wrap the line
around a winch and crank and crank and . . .
The captain says these special winches cost $2,000
each. And they're almost as much fun as pushups.
We yacht until mid-afternoon when the discussion be
gins as to where we should anchor for the night. This lasts
several hours and we invariably wind up in the wrong
place. But we idle rich can then enjoy our tepid cocktails
(we are chronically short of ice) in the glowing sunset in
the cockpit. If it isn't raining.
m Yet all good things must come to an end. Tomorrow,
we must renounce the life of the idle rich and return to
the trials of civilization.
I must admit, however, that I was deeply touched this
morning by what Glynda had to say as she heaved gamely
on the slimy anchor chair, pearls of perspirition bedewing
her upper lip.
"I wonder," she said, between gasps for breath, "what
the poor people are doing today?" What couched me
deeply was the plaintive note in her voice of wilfulness.
(c) Chronicle Publishing Co.
Minorities. . .
Continued from Page 4
Thanks, but no thanks, said Sowell, too much a
maverick to want to run a bureaucracy he doesn't believe
in.
The message of his books lies less in their conclusions,
he says, than in their approach, which is empirical.
"I'm amazed at how many people regard facts as
impediments at best, and red herrings at worst," he says,
describing his position as "anti-foregone conclusion." lie
does not regard the free market as a universal "solution,"
but as - for many purposes - a sound approach to social
realities.
He attributes increased black success much less to civil
rights legislation than to the pressures of the free market:
qualified blacks were improving their status rapidly in the
decade before the major civil rights act of the '60s were
passed.
"I don't believe that the market is magic," he says. All
he claims for it is that, on the record, it has worked far
better than policies based on the notion that government
can produce social and economic miracles.
The Los Angeles Times Syndicate
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