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...other hand, populist though you be, you don't entrust your life savings to a friendly guy named Bud whom you met this morning at the bus depot. You prefer men named Calvin who work in buildings with pillars...
DIED. THE REV. ELLWOOD ("Bud") KIESER, 71, six-time Emmy Award-winning Roman Catholic priest; of colon cancer; in Los Angeles. His morality-based drama series, Insight, which ran for 23 years, from 1960 to 1983, attracted such high-profile actors as Walter Matthau and Martin Sheen...
...considering, among other things, making it easier to stay on Medicaid by eliminating in-person interviews every six months. But when the public health committee of the Texas house began discussing simpler rules last January, Bush's point man on fiscal issues tried to nip it in the bud. Appropriations committee chairman Robert Junell had legislative budget analysts project the costs to the state and made sure each legislator saw the eye-popping numbers: $600 million over two years. Democratic representative Glen Maxey saw the unsolicited analysis as an end run to scare off undecided members. "It's a higher...
...Fenway, we sat in the outfield with the Sox's ever obstreperous bleacher bums. After a couple innings of anticipation (and not a few visits by the Bud Man), when Rocker finally emerged from under the bleachers to warm up, you would have thought that this crew was going to storm the field and lynch him. There was enough cursing coming from the bleachers to make a sailor blush...
...than 50 people from all over the world have congregated under a white tarpaulin to talk pins and do deals. For many, this is a biennial reunion: They turn up at every Summer and Winter Games. It's also where their version of the competitive Olympic spirit kicks in. Bud Kling, a 53-year-old tennis coach from Pacific Palisades, Calif., has been to six Games and has more than 20,000 pins, which cover his office walls and sparkle in custom-made display cabinets. A fellow trader comes up to gloat, having snapped up a sought-after NBC guest...