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...They faltered in the conditions and we tookadvantage of it," White said. "We had been rowingthose conditions all week. We had been practicingracing in head winds and chop. We went down thereexpecting it to be like that...
THERE WERE THREE BUBBAS, TWO POOKIES, ONE Tookie, a Pork Chop, brothers Motorboat and Speedboat Jones, Ted Williams (no relation), Pete Rose (relation), an Evers, a Chance and a lot of stinkers. They came in sizes ridiculously large and incredibly small, ages old and older. They had worn the uniforms of the Brasschaat (Belgium) Braves and Melbourne (Australia) Monarchs. They gave up day jobs like stockbroker and bag boy and minister and fireman and even sportswriter. They all had the same dream, though, the same faint hope that they would appear in a major league box score for the first...
...Harvard Dining Services specialty that has intrigued me most, however, is not a regional food, so far as I can tell: American Chop Suey. I know you've wondered about it, too. What the hell is American Chop Suey? John Shaffer, Assistant General Manager at the Freshman Dining Hall, explains, "American Chop Suey was based on the idea that chop suey was a whole bunch of stuff mixed together, so people used to take leftovers at the end of the week, grind up the meat, and mix it up." This may not sound too reasuring, but Shaffer further clarifies, "However...
...cultural activities tilted in the 1960s away from private donors toward an increasingly activist Federal Government. The results of the 1994 elections ensure that the cultural debate of 1995 will center on reversing that trend. House Speaker Newt Gingrich and the new Republican majorities in Congress are determined to chop off funding to the National Endowment for the Arts, which last year distributed $146 million to 3,800 organizations and individuals, and to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which in 1994 meted out $285.6 million to the Public Broadcasting System and its 345 member stations...
...children whose lives would be made joyless if such familiar PBS friends as Big Bird, Barney and Mister Rogers were taken away. Without federal funds, said Randall Feldman, president of WYES in New Orleans, his station would face cutbacks almost immediately. "Early-morning broadcasts of Barney and Lamb Chop's Play-Along would go away," he said. "It would be a huge step backward for America...