Do you know Sybil Vann? Elizabeth Tripp? Mary Wilds?

You ought to. They are very powerful people. And I know that many of you are here because you want power. Sybil Vann, Elizabeth Tripp, Mary Wilds could teach you power mongers a thing or two about it.

Last week, buying aspirin at supermarket, I almost reached for a bottle of expensive aspirin, then I remembered what Elizabeth Tripp taught us in her science class: ''People, aspirin is aspirin. It's that simple. The only difference in aspirin is in the advertising. They may add a touch of caffeine, or a bit of baking soda to it, call it special and charge you more for it, but there's no difference except the cost.'' We proved it in our analysis of various kinds of aspirin.

Later that day, someone said something which was critical of the…