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...wickedly reminding readers along the way that the house had once been assigned to Mikhail Gorbachev. As party first secretary in Sverdlovsk during the 1970s, Yeltsin enjoyed the same perks that Gorbachev received in Stavropol province in the south. But while Gorbachev took to the privileges like an English earl to a grouse-shooting party, Yeltsin seemed to feel he had got them by sneaking over the earl's fence...
Henry Pappas with Ronnie Earl at Johnny...
...work, as there often is about Rubens'. He loved private character and painted the interplay between that character and the public mask with a sensitivity that few artists have rivaled since. Sometimes he would seem to have done this by guesswork. His 1633 portrait of Henry Percy, "the Wizard Earl" who spent 16 years of his life immured in the Tower of London for his supposed complicity in the Gunpowder Plot, is an icon of saturnine intellect, from the same introspective domain as Robert Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy. But Van Dyck probably never met Percy, who died...
...huddle, he's a drill sargent, bellowing a stream of juicy expletives at his troops. On the bench, he's a no-nonsense high school principle, lecturing his players, lecturing the referees, stalking the sidelines with eagle eyes riveted on the court. In the press room he's James Earl Jones, pontificating, condescending, commanding respect. Roby is tough. He can scream and curse and berate officials, too. But would he call time-out with a 25-point lead to tell off his guards at mid-court? Doubtful...
HOLY CROSS (108): Aaron Jordan 2-4 2-26; Bill WAlker 2-4 0-0 4; Jim Nairus 7-9 6-7 22;Earl Weedon 7-11 0-0 14; Leon Dickerson 10-15 2-522; David Boyle 4-8 5-7 14; Frank Powell 4-6 3-312; Scott Martzioff 1-3 3-4 5; Roger Breslin 0-11-3 1; Rick Mashburn 2-4 1-4 5; David Rothstein0-0 0-0 0; John Young 0-0 0-0 0; Derek Farkas 0-00-0 0; Reece Horton...