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...result is an impressive level of competence. The American Bar Association (A.B.A.) has rated half of Reagan's first-term nominees to the district court exceptionally well qualified or well qualified, a level matched in the previous four presidencies only by the Carter Administration. At the appellate level he has chosen a number of stars. "John Noonan is one of the five smartest guys in the world," says one Justice official proudly. He is also the author of scholarly books on the history of bribery and the Catholic Church's teaching on contraception, though this clearly counts less than...
...This deal was sold out before the season started," Gil Bartosh, athletic director for the Midland Independent School District, was explaining the day before the game. Outside, fat drops of rain fell in sheets that turned the streets to rivers and flooded the stadium just beyond Bartosh's window. Just then a dripping grounds keeper came in to fetch a slicker. "It's gone," he said of the field. "I been out there. I got water plumb out." Bartosh canceled the junior varsity game that had been scheduled for that night, saying, "We don't want to tear...
...around their schools." When the tickets for this game went on sale, the school's booster club gobbled them up before any could be offered to the general public, which got cross. The Midland Memorial Stadium seats 10,750. Odessa has a new stadium that seats 19,500, but district rules say the game has to alternate sites each year. "When we go out of town [to play] in West Texas, we'll carry 3,000 to 7,000 with us on the road," said Bartosh...
...only game in town," explained Scotty Alcorn, a geological engineer for a Midland oil company. "You take pride in your football team. We call this district the Little Southwest Conference. It stretches from Odessa to Abilene, 165 miles. Why, back East in some places you'd be out of the state...
...Jersey's Republican Governor Tom Kean, who won by only 1,797 votes four years ago, crushed his young Democratic challenger, Peter Shapiro. In a state where just 20% of the voters identify themselves as Republicans, Kean won more than 70% of the vote and every major city and district. The G.O.P., hitching a ride on the Kean juggernaut, achieved a majority in the state assembly for the first time in more than a decade...