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...finish of the fifth game, he went sliding after a foul ball, skidded into his dugout and onto the spacious cushion of Coach Lee May. With a whistle, Royals Manager Dick Howser declared later, "May's catch was the play of the night." Spared a concussion, though not a finger in the eye, Brett had to sit out a bleary half-inning. But first he got another...
...weeks earlier bestowed on South Africa's State President P.W. Botha. "Had it not been for the Marcos family," Falwell told an audience that included the First Couple, government supporters and officials, "the chances are that the freedoms you enjoy today would not be here." Falwell later shook his finger at the Reagan Administration for "bellyaching" about the need for financial and military reform in the Philippines and demanded that after the announced elections the U.S. "get behind the country with unswerving support...
...latest American Idol? Wrong! Dragons' Den is a program about money for sale. Five wealthy venture capitalists take pitches from hungry entrepreneurs, who try to persuade the moneybags to invest in businesses ranging from fashion to toys to furniture. The VCs finger stacks of money like countinghouse kings while they grill the hopefuls, causing more squirm and humiliation than The Office...
...require a general anesthetic. Doctors inserted into his colon a tube with a wire snare attached to remove the polyp they knew about, and an optical device to allow close examination of the intestine. The second polyp they discovered was too large (about the size of a baby's finger) to be removed in that manner; all they could do then was scrape off some cells from the polyp's periphery for a biopsy. Though Reagan was conscious, he knew none of this at the time. By 3:20 p.m. he was being wheeled to a recovery room, Nancy walking...
...hierarchical organization that Adams might well admire. McFarlane retains independent access to the President on foreign policy problems, or did before Reagan's surgery. But otherwise, says one veteran of Reagan's first term White House staff, "Don has asserted himself so that nobody is able to lift a finger without his blessing...