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When asked about her numerous achievements and honors, Kirkland House resident Maureen Finn pauses, laughs and explains, "My father always told us that if we weren't going to do our best at something, then we shouldn't bother doing...
...This year things did not work out too well. At Cartago, President Rodrigo Carazo Odio, 54, was shouted down when he tried to speak, and later discovered that the air had been let out of the tires of his car. At San José he did not even bother with the customary oration. He quickly paraphrased the first verse of the country's national anthem ("Costa Ricans, remember that beneath the limpid blue of your skies, there will always be work and peace") and just as quickly sat down...
...McEnroe held serve and then broke back with a stunning barrage of outright winners, including two top-spin lobs Borg didn't even bother to chase. The sudden attack seemed to stun Borg, who never seriously threatened to regain the offensive...
...does the creationist upsurge bother him, coming as it does just as his career in evolution is flourishing? "It bothers me," he says, "but for all its latching on the rhetoric of equal time, it's basically an old-fashioned, anti-intellectual attack against toleration, and an attempt to impose dogma on the schools. The only way it hurts my career is that it takes up too much damn time--people always asking you to write articles and be on the radio and t.v., and I don't learn anything by doing that. You don't learn anything by fighting...
...Helms machine's freedom from the constraints of money, state lines and party labels troubles many professional politicians. Insists Tom Ellis: "We are a bridge between conservative Democrats and conservative Republicans. I would like to see a realignment under the Republican banner, but it wouldn't bother me to change the name. In the real world, it may be that all we can do is realign the Republican Party." Helms and his money club have already done that in North Carolina. -By John F. Stacks