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...early 1983 though, another classified document painted a considerably bleaker picture. Leaving Pollyanna-ish to Reagan, the document conceded that the document their current levels, were Cub Scouts the jungles of Nicaragua. They couldn't hold major population centers, much less challenge the Sandinista regime...
...Tugging on his roots in Independence, Mo., Kansas City showed Sutcliffe exactly where his grandfather's season seat would be. Again the pitcher resisted. "My heart told me to come back to Chicago," he says without embarrassment. "After the way things went last year, I guess I became a Cub fan." Behind his 16 victories against just one loss, the Cubs graced postseason competition for the first time since 1945. "I've always enjoyed pitching," muses Sutcliffe, rescued from Cleveland last June, "but I liked watching the Cubs on the days I didn't pitch, the whole production, Harry singing...
Journalese, the native tongue of newsgatherers and pundits, retains a faint similarity to English but is actually closer to Latin. Like Latin, it is primarily a written language, prized for its incantatory powers, and is best learned early, while the mind is still supple. Every cub reporter, for instance, knows that fires rage out of control, minor mischief is perpetrated by Vandals (never Visigoths, Franks or a single Vandal working alone) and key labor accords are hammered out by weary negotiators in marathon, round-the- clock bargaining sessions, thus narrowly averting threatened walkouts. The discipline required for a winter storm...
...concur with the retired philosopher Richie Allen: "If horses won't eat it, I don't want to play on it." Against these and most other modern innovations, nearly all of them television related, the game's purest followers stand foursquare. But what really gets a rise out of Cub fans is an invasion of lights, which they alone have fought off for 50 years. Like their heroes, they are playing a losing game...
Soon after Jeffrey Peters heard two years ago that some hunters had trapped a rare Merlin falcon, he went to Utah to pick it up. Peters, a Columbia, Mo., high school biology teacher and Cub Scout leader, is an internationally respected researcher whose specialty is birds of prey. But he did not obtain a permit from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to transport the rare bird over state lines. As a result, he was snared in an undercover sting operation aimed at poachers who illegally supply falconers in the Middle East, where the ancient sport of hunting with trained...