"You did, Derek. But those guys hit back hard. Bill Buckley had a number of articles ridiculing my stance on the Moral Majority, and so did Commentary"

"Well Bart, that's what you gotta expect when you play in the big leagues. Big mouths make big enemies. But what does it really matter. Everything is working just as we planned. We've got the best disinformation campaign going this side of the Kremlin-on-the-Charles,"

"You've got a point".

"And not only that, but we've gained you the credibility you need to make the big switch".

"Well, let's not get ahead of ourselves".

"But seriously Bart, we now have got people thinking the president of Yale is more outspoken than the president of Harvard. The Moral Majority, athletics, the Red Son, the president who walks the hallowed halls of Eli with his adoring students, locked in deep speculation about the nature of man-you're in the public eye on all-".

"But Detek, you've been in the public eve too".

"But not as you have Bart, no one more knows who I am. It's okay. You have got the credibility, now, to oversee the destruction of Yale. The plan. The plan. Don't you remember-".

"Yes of course, the plan. But what's next?"

"I was starting to say that the next step is to get the admissions people out badmouthing Yale. Out everywhere. Lamenting the miserable conditions, the strike, the quisling administration, the boring students, the depressing gothic architecture. Remember Bart, you've got to hang tough. Remember how I did it on those South Africa investments. Our plan is going to take more than posturing. Quoting Socrates will only get you so far".

"Well just the other day I repeated my vow not to accept binding arbitration."

"You got the idea. I'll soon call out the dogs-".

"Now Derek, whatever we agreed to do, I told you I would not let your final clubs on this campus".

"You are really dense. I was talking bout Ed Fiske--you know, of the times-and the other education writers I'm going to start giving interviews-".

"But you haven't given one of those to the national press in six years Why should they believe you?"