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...turn right, and you can drive down the beach as in the old days at Daytona, on fine, hard-packed sand, hugging the Gulf of Mexico. It's a place to appreciate a pristine view--no condos, no concession stands, no concessions at all to anything except the fact that the border begins where the Rio Grande pours into the sea, and so it has to be guarded carefully...
...longest-serving Prime Minister in postwar Italy, Berlusconi might be tempted to try to score points off his opponent's youth and inexperience--except that his rival, former Prime Minister Romano Prodi, is 66. Whoever wins, Italy will remain the only West European country with a sexagenarian Prime Minister. For Italians the face-off between two candidates born in the 1930s is a discomfiting reminder of the country's geriatric tilt. "It's the same faces saying the same things," says Mariangela Potenza, 24, a university student from Basilicata. "There's nothing that transmits innovation or novelty to the voters...
...Chestnut Hill, Mass., the Crimson watched the host earn top honors again. The Eagles eked out a first-place finish while Harvard was second at the Team Racing Series 2. Each of the five schools saw action in four races, with the Crimson taking care of every squad except BC. Sailing in the event were junior skipper Matthew Knowles and junior crew Cassandra Niemi, freshman skipper Andrew Flynn and sophomore crew Alicia Harley, as well as freshman skipper Jon Garrity and junior crew Ashley Nathanson. The round-robin event was characterized by unseasonably dicey conditions, with wind gusts topping...
...There really was no coverage of civil rights,” said Lake, “and there was no coverage of blacks except if they did something criminal...
...Office of Management and Budget, and finally as secretary of the old Department of Health, Education, and Welfare.Weinberger returned to the nation’s capitol in 1981 to head up the Pentagon and stayed in the job until 1987, serving longer than any secretary of defense except Robert S. McNamara.Administering the largest peacetime defense buildup in history, which totaled $2 trillion, Weinberger saw his nickname change from “Cap the Knife”—an unflattering moniker he had earned for cutting public spending during the 1970s?...