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...Said's amateur passion, his violon d'Ingres, is music. He is an accomplished pianist; in April he gave duet recitals in New York and Washington with the Lebanese pianist Diana Takieddine. For some years he wrote music criticism for The Nation, and in 1991 he published a collection of his essays, Musical Elaborations. Today, afflicted by leukemia and acutely aware of the shortness of life, he is thinking of writing "a memoir of my pre-political life, which ended in 1967. What a strange world I grew up in! -- a vanished world now. It's very hard even...
...fatality and 56 rescues in 1991. Rescues there were far more expensive, at $1,135,000 for '92 and $1,284,000 for '91. Park Service expense accounts aside, as any climber knows, most of the risk and sweat of mountain rescues in the U.S. is borne by amateur volunteers. To a considerable extent, climbers look out for themselves...
...calamitous week, Clinton lurches toward middle ground, but his own confusion about his Administration's course and a chaotic staff contribute to one more episode of Amateur Hour...
...tried to be as strong a voice as I could possibly be," Restic says. "I've always felt that's the way college football should be. Let's not be hypocritical here. Let's say this is either amateur, or it's professional, or semi-professional. One or the other. And we have tried to keep it as amateur as we possibly...
...July, 1973, on the proposed legalization of gambling on college football: "The idea of legalizing gambling on amateur sports by Massachusetts could only result from a moral breakdown similar to Watergate...