Greetings to you, too!

As I entered the Faculty Lounge this morning, a senior colleague greeted me with:
Hello, Swedish-born wily law prof!

I have the following Q: is there anyone in the entire law building who still does not know that I am Polish?? Wow. And I thought I mentioned it with every sentence.

As to the ‘wily’ bit:
Howe'er with wily freaks your heads be stored (La Fontaine), think wiry!

Or, if I am to be wily, let me recall Lord Byron here:

"Alas!" replies the wily child
In faltering accents sweetly mild;
"A hapless Infant here I roam,
Far from my dear maternal home.”

Which is in Poland. Not Sweden.

Thirtieth street pre-election diary*

30th: a simple, humble marking 

A quiet day, I hope. Early in the morning I read the NYT story about a quiet Republican from Rhode Island (here), Senator Chafee, who is NOT going to vote for Bush on November 2nd.

Quote of the day thus comes, for me, again from a Republican. First the backdrop then the quote itself:

Yet the Rhode Island senator said he was angry himself- at what he regards as broken campaign promises by the current occupant of the White House. He said Mr. Bush's promise to be "a uniter, not a divider" resonated with him, as did Mr. Bush's remark in a 2000 debate that the United States would have to be humble, not arrogant, to be respected in the world.

"As soon as victory was achieved came people with a completely different agenda than being humble," he said. Asked if he regretted supporting the president, he said, "I regret that some of the answers to important questions weren't more forthright and that there wasn't more adherence to campaign rhetoric."

(*see “forty-second street pre-election diary” post, September 22, for explanation of post title)