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Editorial 19: What Painful Words, Unsaid or The Joker in the Deck

As a result of dogged deter- mination I had thought Id found a way out of this dark tunnel where my captors have kept me for the last few weeks. I am close to the light when a gloved hand snatches my foot, weak- ened from the torture and the lack of food and light, I slide back down into my dungeon.

Editoriale! They scream with lighted torches shaking in my poor cherubic face.

No , I scream, not anoth- er. ee tes Editoriale! They scream as they pour piping hot cocoa over my arms and force me into a manoeuvre that used to be called the _ Camel Clutch when performed by the Iron Sheik, but is now, apparent- ly called, Editoriale! because that is what they keep screaming until one

3 AL WAXMAN

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7 CORPORATE CAMPUS

8 ENVIRONMENT

9 ‘ ROBERT LATIMER

11 POLITICS

2 ae SEAT SALE

13 COMMENTARY

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16 CHOICE CUTS

18 THE EVENT TENT

19 DIscs OF FURY

20 MARK CUBAN

of them forces a pen into my hand, and prods me viciously with a bayo- nette until I am forced to submit, and reluctantly begin.

The Story of The Cadre (Part 2 in a series of parts that num- ber, in the end, 7)

It is early last year. The Cadre office has just recovered from its first ever cleaning: the air is thick with “plug-in” style air circulation. I am talking to Mad Leo, the universi- ty’s library technician, “rumpled intellectual” and social ombudsman. He is suggesting I meet the son of a union-type friend of his. The boy’s name is Stephan, Mad Leo says, Stephan MacLeod. And he is rather funny. :

FACT: “Facts and Opinions” was an editorial and random notes section in

and early 1970s. OPINION: Stephan MacLeod’s “Fact and Opinion” is the most pop-

Sports Illustrated in the late 1960s

ular column in this paper’s history. So popular that you are, in all likeli- hood, reading it rightnow.

FACT: “Fact and Opinion” was to be a sober account of the local news and happenings through the eyes of me, The Editor. OPINION: Upon _ meeting MacLeod, and instantly recognising his astounding wit, I decided “Fact and Opinion” was his.

“T have something for you,” I said.

Stephan had been hanging around the office for awhile, and had submitted something called the “Entertainment Payment” which I liked, but did not think had the stay- ing power (I also didn’t think it would provide him sufficient chal- lenge) to make it something that peo- ple would read—wait for, really— that the new “Fact and Opinion” would have. ; “Mm-Hmm. Okay, what is it?” tae “I want you to take a fact, and then make a funny comment about that fact: and ‘opinion.’ Do it in themes, facts about things, and then go off on them” (note: there is no way I can remember exactly what I said, since it was so long ago, but I am pretty sure I have never used the words, “go off”).

“Mm-Hmm.” He said in the way he says such things that invoke both a subtle understanding of the

vagaries of human existence while, at the same time, make one wonder

whether he is actually listening.

“You understand what I want right?” I said, in the authoritative way I say things that makes you wonder if I am really in charge around here, or, in fact, just the Rube with my name at the top of the mast- head.

“M.M... I think so.”

The next week I was sitting

in my black chair, which incidentally

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