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...candidate said she would be telling voters, "don't punch Thompson, stick Graham," on November 8th. Holding up a Cambridge computer-card ballot, she demonstrated how to put a sticker with her name and address in the appropriate place on the ballot's paper wrapper...
...think dress guidelines are stupid," Lisa Bequette was saying just the other day, before beginning 8th grade at Maryland's Mount Airy Middle School, northwest of Washington. "I would wear a cropped T shirt to school. Why should they tell me not to show my belly button?" Good thing she is a little too young to meet Brendan McReady at a mixer. McReady, a junior at Bethesda- Chevy Chase High School, has some sentimental regard for the school uniforms at an alma mater: "Everyone wore the same thing every day, so perhaps it was easier. You'd get up, throw...
...Then I come out, see, and the crowd really goes wild. I'm wearing just one glove and I'm about to do this great step where I just kind of slide backwards and suddenly my hair spontaneously incinerates. That'll get them out to the polls on October 8th...
Conrad, 41, formerly attached to the headquarters company of the U.S. 8th Infantry Division, allegedly provided Soviet bloc agents with a flow of NATO secrets for a decade or more. Although retired since September 1985, Conrad apparently recruited helpers. As recently as last month, while under surveillance, he turned material over to his Soviet bloc handlers in Vienna. Swedish officials also arrested two former Hungarian nationals who allegedly served as couriers for the network, and dozens of interrogations are still under...
...numeral -- two vertical lines widening toward the bottom -- indicates suehirogari, or increasing prosperity. So does Mount Fuji, whose graceful slopes mirror the character. To observe the once-in-a-century day, nearly 1,000 Japanese climbers gathered at the top of Fuji in the early-morning hours of the 8th. They erected a cairn at the crest with 216 stones collected from mountains whose names include the word fuji, such as Kofuji or Rishirifuji. At 8:08 the last stone was placed by an eight-year-old boy, Akinori Yasuda. His birthday...