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...profits successfully stand on their own feet all the time--often with less resources than PBHA Inc. Stiles and Dwight Hall [at Yale] have been independent for decades running similar operations. Of course, I would never cede the mantle of undergraduate public service leadership to any other organization...
...York--Its starting rotation seems healthy, and David Cone, Kenny Rogers and Dwight Gooden are all throwing great. The team will be fine unless closer Mariano Rivera falters. It doesn't have the luxury of John Wetteland any more...
When it comes to raising money for presidential elections, you could say Maurice Stans wrote the book. As finance chairman of Richard Nixon's successful re-election in 1972, he reeled in an unprecedented $61 million. An accountant by training, Stans had been budget director under Dwight Eisenhower and later began fund raising for Nixon, ultimately becoming Nixon's first Secretary of Commerce. To this day Stans steadfastly maintains he was not involved in any Watergate wrongdoing. In 1975 he did plead guilty to five misdemeanor violations of campaign laws, paying a $5,000 fine. (A year earlier...
Tupac's demise in Las Vegas six months ago was supposed to have a cathartic effect on the rap world. In the wake of his death, it seemed that the East Coast-West Coast beef might be squashed. When Quincy Jones addressed Prof. Dwight Andrews' class on black music several weeks ago, he claimed that Tupac's death was forcing a critical reexamination of gangsta posturing in rap music. Reports from the recent Soul Train Music Awards claimed that a new harmony had reigned. The next night, a drive-by shooting ended Biggie's life...
Movies, however, are called "Sling Blade" for a reason, and that reason is Doyle (Dwight Yoakam, sans cowboy hat), Linda's construction-worker boyfriend. Doyle, the trashiest of trash, is goading and just generally pissed when sober, but dangerous and violent when drunk--which, sadly for Linda and Frank, is pretty much all the time...