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Football combines the two worst things about America: it is violence punctuated by committee meetings.

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George Will
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: May 4
Columnist
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Champaign
Illinois
George F. Will
George Frederick Will
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Some calamities - the 1929 stock market crash, Pearl Harbor, 9/11 - have come like summer lightning, as bolts from the blue. The looming crisis of America's Ponzi entitlement structure is different. Driven by the demographics of an aging population, its causes, timing and scope are known.
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Since 1946, the Cubs have had two problems: They put too few runs on the scoreboard and the other guys put too many. So what is the new management improving? The scoreboard.
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The most important business of one generation is the raising of the next generation. Nothing else you do in life will be as deeply satisfying.
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Today it would be progress if everyone would stop talking about values. Instead, let us talk, as the Founders did, about virtues.
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Invariably, it is this for which I write: the joy ... of an argument firmly made, like a nail straightly driven, its head flush to the plank.
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