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Wheel of Fortune staffers say the program is looking for outgoing students who won't crack under pressure. "We want people who are fun to watch. Whether they win or lose, they've got to look like they're having a good time," Selsby said. He added that a contestant must also be able to "make logical choices when the pressure is on. The game sounds fairly simple, but it's much more difficult playing in front of a real camera and with real money...
...Last week rookie police officer Edward Byrne, age 22, died--shot executuion-style in a crack-related crime...
Since the Kerner report, only the words have changed. No longer do we hear of ghettos, but now the inner city; no longer segregation laws, but crack, dirty syringes, government inaction, societal blindness...
...implications of this situation are too fully revealed in the fate of Edward Byrne. The circumstances of his death fit too well into the scenario depicted by the new report on civil disorders. South Jamaica, Queens-inner city. Poverty, crack-dealing, violent crime, a young man dead. And society is torn a more...
...seems a trifle unfair that Clarkson should get another crack at the Crimson. The Golden Knights couldn't even beat the Crimson in their own building. Why should they get a third life on so-called neutral territory...