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...years as publisher of the stormy Las Vegas Sun (circ. 45,000), Hank Greenspun has been a party to more than 100 lawsuits, a feat that may well make him the most sued man in U.S. journalism. This year alone, ten wrathful readers have taken him to court-from a local councilman whose voting record Greenspun disliked to an acupuncturist the Sun labeled as unqualified to practice...
Harvard accomplished this feat despite the sub-par (as in too many shots over par) performance of number one man Alex Vik, a victory equivalent to the Celtics winning the NBA Championship with Henry Finkel as the starting center...
While Media and Bombay Duck were throwing their weight around in New York, the Louisiana Derby of March 22 was taken by a lightly regarded Master Derby. For horse racing myopics who are chauvinist about Eastern racing, that feat came into focus last week, when Master Derby trudged his way through the slop to win the Blue Grass Stakes, his fifth consecutive victory and an important Derby prep...
...subtly different touch of the sleeve of Neocle, the Greek warrior she's supposed to marry, indicated a dutiful, patriotic love without passion. The libretto is tedious, and often slightly ridiculous--several of the most dance-like arias have the most tragic texts, and Sills pulled off a real feat in making these passages sound agitated rather than light-hearted. If her voice now shows occasional signs of stram and her highest notes are slightly pinched, it makes no difference: Sills's special gift isn't perfection, but the perfect communication...
Brown demands similar restraint by the state. After scrutinizing every agency's spending proposal-a feat performed by no other California Governor in memory-he offered a supertight budget of $11.3 billion for fiscal...