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Ballots list a bumper-sticker crop of 237 questions in 42 states...
...initiative and referendum, those venerable tools of direct democracy, in greater numbers or with wider impact. From cracking down on crime to denying electroshock therapy in Berkeley, Calif., there were 237 statewide ballot measures in 42 states and the District of Columbia. California fielded the most, a bumper-sticker crop...
Slowly, though, Harvard has started to project the image of a serious water program. A strong crop of freshmen showed up this year and Coach pike has seen more interest among a few high school players he's met pike knows "we're just four of five players away from being able to stay even with." Most important, notes Fasi, "Brown is worried. Guys like Lars [Enstrom] come up to me at games and ask who's graduating next year...
Birk is just one of the current crop of top corporate executives who prefer to think on their feet. George Shinn, chairman and chief executive officer of First Boston Corp., a leading investment-banking house, has been a devoted stander for twelve years. Shinn, a Merrill Lynch alumnus who also had backaches, believes that tall desks are simply an outgrowth of evolution. Says he: "We crawled and walked on all fours before standing, so the upright posture is the most natural." Both Shinn and Birk are following in the tradition of Edward Allen Pierce, a Merrill Lynch founder who worked...
...only really comfortable after the murder, when, a Howard's corpse, he no longer has to deal with the film's wooden dialogue: immobilized, he wears an unearthly look of relief, Ken Waht plays the macho easy-going Eric Estrada type of guy who seems to crop up in almost every cop and adventure show on T.V. he mumbles his way through his lines adequately, and when the going gets rough, he takes off his shirt to reveal his true assets...