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...Lent celebration of food, music and merrymaking, came two days early to Miami's Little Haiti this year. After Haitian President-for-Life Jean-Claude Duvalier boarded a plane for France last week, hundreds of Haitian immigrants, some still dressed in their pajamas, streamed into the streets to cheer the youthful dictator's fall. Pedestrians danced and sang, and car drivers happily honked their horns as swelling numbers of Miami's 60,000 Haitians joined the revelry...
...AMERICANS CAN cheer the recent federal appeals court decision declaring the Gramm-Rudman law unconstitutional. Federal judges decided that the Gramm-Rudman script to end the real-life version of "The Blob" was the wimps way out. Congress had run from the lobbyists...
Like runners passing a baton, Harris handed off the public narration to Steve Nesbitt, the communicator at the Johnson Space Center in Houston. At the cape, his voice was lost amid the cheers of some 1,000 spectators watching on bleachers some four miles from Pad 39-B. Even at that distance, they could feel the power of the blast-off, which elicits an almost instinctive elation. A graceful sculpture arising from an awesome explosion: it was just as it was supposed to look. Among the relieved viewers were relatives of most of Challenger's crew, including Christa's parents...
...Crimson women, swimming is not an individual sport. "If someone is down, there are eight people there to cheer her up," Wilson said. "It's like a second family...
...state of the union is strong, and America is on the move, Reagan will insist. From the carefully crafted lines he has prepared, one of his favored themes emerges: give the people credit for the past five successful years. Cheer the family, the moms and pops who tended their kids, worked hard at their jobs, risked their savings in new ventures and honored their traditions. Those people got America moving, and it is high time to reduce the federal budget and "leave the family budget alone...