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...League World Champions turned sour even before the last shred of confetti hit the ground. Local sports columnists claimed that as many as half the players on the team from Zamboanga City in the southern Philippines were over the 12-year age limit (or 13 if the player's birthday is after Aug. 1). Little League officials in Manila stonewalled efforts to certify the players' ages, and most of the Philippine press and public seemed to view the accusations as an American plot...
Initial reaction to the relocation has been mixed. Despite sign-ups for Red Sox games and Happy Birthday announcements that line the hallways, there is an anxiety among students that some say goes beyond normal first-year jitters...
David Binder, his editor there, remembers him as "an invading army. He worked harder than anyone and had fun at it besides." No other cub reporter would have played along so willingly when Binder, trying to prevent Sulzberger from going home on time and spoiling a surprise birthday party, asked him to get quote after quote about the Panama Canal treaty. "I said, 'Arthur, why don't you call Ellsworth Bunker and see what he has to say?' Arthur got a quote from Bunker a few minutes later. Then I said, 'What about Averell Harriman?' He got a quote from...
...slightest pretext: checking with his secretary on whether he calls his father "Dad," "Punch" or "the chairman" (in public, it's "the chairman"); grabbing a book by a management guru he admires; pointing out the stand-up desk where he reads the paper at 7 each morning. At a birthday party at the 300-acre family estate in Connecticut (where the family dogs have their own memorial park), it poured all day but, like a camp counselor with a shrill whistle, he insisted that everyone jump into the pool and play volleyball...
Patients at the rehabilitation center practice social skills by calling each other on the phone and organizing excursions to restaurants and shops. They help one another set daily goals: cook breakfast, buy Mom a birthday card, look for a job. They also learn to do mundane chores: washing clothes in the hospital laundry room and cooking in a tiny employee kitchen. Nothing is easy. Soap goes into the washing machines, but clothes are often forgotten. Because schizophrenics have certain cognitive problems, they have trouble generalizing the principles behind the chores. Thus learning to fry chicken doesn't mean they will...