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...pretty metaphors rather than cogent messages. Speaking at the Juilliard School, Jane Alexander, chair of the National Endowment for the Arts, made a hazy comparison between life and sailing. "You chart a trek where no one's sailed before," she said, quoting the poet Samuel Hazo. "You rig. You anchor Up. You said." A nice almost inspirational image, but not very useful advice to the Class...
...wise-guy anchor of Weekend Update for six years on Saturday Night Live, Dennis Miller came across as a smug, overage frat boy. Now, sporting a full beard and a fresh dose of righteous zeal, he's the angry prophet of the airwaves -- Howard Beale with a bottle of Evian. On his new late-night HBO show, Miller delivers well-tuned rants on topics like the cult of celebrity. "Michael Jackson," he fumes, "one of the five weirdest people on the planet earth -- and the other four are his brothers. And while we're on the subject...
Late season injuries left the team hobbled. Karen Goetze, the anchor leg of the indoor HEPS record-breaking 4x400 relay team, could not race because of a stress fracture. Though able to compete, co-captain Alexia Cruz and Amanda Williams were both slowed by injuries...
...this matter" -- whatever that meant. John Warner of Virginia worried about the hardship Kelso's wife would bear if he were to get $17,000 a year less. Sam Nunn got tangled up in sailing analogies -- Kelso's opponents were putting him in a rowboat and tying an anchor to his leg and saying he "should have been down on the bottom of the ship" -- and concluded that the Senate should not take two stars away from Kelso because it "would set a different standard." But that was exactly what Kelso's opponents were hoping...
...bonus. This growing disparity plays into it." Making workers even more desperate, says Dennis Johnson, a clinical psychologist at Behavior Analysts and Consultants in Stuart, Florida, is the prospect of finding "positions with lower pay, fewer benefits and little job satisfaction. You're taking away a very critical anchor, especially...