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...outraged by the popularity of the crude and cruel techniques of carjacking, which he insists is due to a national surplus of amateur burglars. "In the 45 seconds it would take me to push you out of your car, I could simply take it off a dark street," he explains. "If it's complicated, maybe I'll need 60 seconds...
...Ryan put herself through the University of Southern California, graduating cum laude. Her first job was teaching at Whittier High School, where the lively Miss Ryan was the students' favorite. At an amateur- theater try-out, she met young lawyer Richard Nixon, who proposed on the first date. "I thought he was crazy," she declared years later. He persevered for three years, and in 1940 they were married...
Morgan, the Ivy League player of the year, was one of three Harvard ballplayers selected in baseball's June 3 amateur draft. Michael L. Hill '93 was taken in the 31st round by the Texas Rangers, signed almost immediately, and has reported to the Erie (Penn.) Sailors. Jeffrey S. Mitchell '94 was picked by the Montreal Expos...
...more open windows are needed to widen the author's world in stories and novels to come. The case of John Irving, droning on about wrestling in book after book, comes drearily to mind, and the hope here is that Jones, a former Marine who was an amateur boxer, has said all, or nearly all, he has to say about getting punched in the nose. But for the range of this brief collection, the author's focus on tough, self-wounded guys works fine...
...Michael Ovitz go by before?" he asked proudly. "He lives around the corner. So does Meryl Streep, and Michelle Pfeiffer.") Riordan said he intends to form an administration not of "technocrats," a breed he abhors, but of "doers and implementers." However, he said, "I am not such an amateur that I'm going to ignore the political side, because if you try to implement things over the dead body of the politicians, they're going to eat you alive...