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Collins now has 89 tackles on the year and is a cinch to break the school single-season record of 101 set by Brent Wilkinson last year (the stat has only recently been kept...
...World Cup at the hand of Maradona; the cricket team was embarrassed by India; Irish Featherweight Barry McGuigan was flattened by a substitute from Texas. At Wimbledon, Best Brits Annabel Croft and John Lloyd were sacked straightaway, and here Lloyd was quitting in a manner that seemed to cinch the national sense of failure...
Over there, the hierarchies of entertainment still closely corresponded to the more rigid hierarchies of social station. Caught between postwar exhaustion and a tradition of hard-line cultural formalism, young Europeans were a cinch to be enthralled by the out-front vitality of Elvis Presley and James Dean, Marilyn Monroe and Mary Martin. "The musicals of the '40s and '50s," recalls Andrew Lloyd Webber, the British composer of Evita and Cats, "came out at a time when your national spirit was able to afford a great deal more than what we in Britain could. You had greater optimism." Fizzy...
With all of the hullabaloo this week about a fancy new plan to require a balanced budget, I renewed my quest to track down the National Debt. You'd think it would be a cinch to find, big as it is. Remember Ronald Reagan's describing it in February 1981 as being a stack of $1,000 bills 67 miles high? I joked that they might have it piled on the Mall to scare tourists...
...fired, the candidate was magnanimous. "I love her," she said of her ex-spokeswoman. "She's terrific. Evidently there was a little chemistry that didn't work." Ferraro's main campaign event, a speech to 3,000 members of the American Federation of Teachers in Washington, was a cinch to be successful. She is a former teacher and AFT member. "Normally I begin a speech by saying I'm delighted to be here. After this week," she told the cheering, chanting union members, "I have to tell you I am absolutely thrilled...