Word: eyeful
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...just put it in this week because we anticipated that Princeton would come hard and blitz a lot, and that's exactly what they did," Menick said. "As soon as the pitch came out, I saw it. I had my eye on Wilske, and the guy covering him even came up and all the backers and the corner came up; I just planted and chucked...
...Chicago got the first Kids 'N Need center. That was a welcome event for Diane Draper, who for 17 years had been supplementing her personal $800-a-year kindergarten shopping budget by raiding Dumpsters in back of office-supply stores. "I'd wait in my car like a private eye to see what got dumped," Draper recalls. "Then I'd get on my toes and reach in. A couple of times, I almost fell in." She is delighted with Kids 'N Need. "If this was done everywhere," she says, "it would change the educational system...
With Laramie at the eye of the storm, there is something to tell about Wyoming. The cowboy state has its rednecks and yahoos, for sure, but there are no more bigots per capita in Wyoming than in New York, Florida or California. The difference is that in Wyoming there are fewer places to blend in if you're anything other than prairie stock. It is tough business--as Matt Shepard knew, and as his friends all know--to be gay in cowboy country...
This does not, of course, make the Lords a particularly energetic arm of the government. By one count, listening to Baroness Jay's speech last week, there were 76 bald heads, 16 mustaches, five walking sticks, three ear trumpets and one eye patch. The Earl of Longford, who carries an enormous magnifying glass, has been sitting in the Lords for 53 years...
...works of art nailed to its mast. All bought, over a little more than two years, by Stephen A. Wynn, 56, who had never collected anything except casino real estate and golf courses before--and who is, moreover, gradually losing his sight to retinitis pigmentosa, an irreversible, degenerative eye disease...