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...ways have left Hanover, N.H. In fact, with John Lyons in command, Dartmouth picked up its first victory over Holy Cross since 1977--a 48-0 thrashing to top that...One reason for the Big Green's continued dominance is junior quarterback Jay Fiedler, currently the seventh best signal-caller in Division I-AA. Fiedler got his third Ivy Offensive Player of the Week nod for his 23-for-34, 307-yard air-fest against the Crusaders...Linebacker extraordiaire Chris Zingo was voted Defensive Player of the Week for his manhandling of the Harvard's offensive line. Zingo tallied...
...distributed 55 million wallet-size cards with instructions on what to do in the event of an attack. Backyard bomb shelters were common. Senior Washington officials received an emergency telephone number that bypassed the commercial system and linked them directly to crisis operators, who understood that if the caller uttered the single code word -- FLASH -- it meant the call was "essential to national survival." Never out of the President's reach were the Presidential Emergency Action Documents and "Plan D," his options for responding to a surprise nuclear attack...
Clinton's TV appearances seem both more smoothly presidential and more drably predictable. Taking call-in questions on NBC's Today show last Tuesday, Clinton had his act down pat, greeting each caller by name ("Good morning, Lucille") and giving carefully measured recitations on everything from education loans to women's rights. His class-president cool was broken just once, when an avowed supporter asked if Clinton would clear up his stance on the Gennifer Flowers allegations: "Just skip any weasel words and give us a | direct answer." Clinton proceeded to repeat his familiar weasel words: Flowers' story about their...
...significant question of the campaign thus far may have come from Katie Couric, the host for Perot's two- hour call-in session on Today in mid-June. After he gave a waffling answer to a question about Social Security benefits, Couric shrewdly tossed the ball back to the caller: "Roberta, are you satisfied with that answer?" She wasn't, and Perot had to try again. Now more grass-roots questioners are probing with follow-ups, insisting on "specifics." At a time when TV journalism has come to the people, the people are learning to be journalists...
Neumann was also the player who knocked Army's star signal-caller, Willie McMillan, out of the game...