Bollinger’s Next Job
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Columbia University’s president, Lee Bollinger, certainly has his work cut out for him in the wake of his showdown with President Ahmadinejad. It turns out that the Middle East faculty at Columbia University is up in arms over Mr. Bollinger’s harsh remarks, and his long awaited confrontation with the faculty may be at hand. We were unable to lay our hands on our copy of the story of the Augean Stables, but we’re sending these limericks:
There is a wonderful fable
of how Augeas thought he was able
To get done in a trice
Without any price
The cleaning out of his stable.Heracles succeeded by wit,
In effecting his fabled gambit:
Re-routing a river
He made the king shiver
And cleaned out all the horse-s—tBut remember this fact when you’re
Inclined to repeat the adven’ure
T’was only manure
That was cleaned by the sewer —
And Augeas didn’t grant tenure.
