Word: florida
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Harvard conducted a search for a replacement, and chose Joel Glass, a graduate assistant SID at Florida. Jeff Bradley, a 1986 graduate of the University of North Carolina--and younger brother of Seattle Mariners's catcher Scott Bradley--was brought in as a full-time intern...
Here's where it got complicated. The day after Glass accepted, he received an offer of promotion at Florida and decided to stay with the Gators. Bradley, in his first day on the job, was called in by Harvard SID Ed Markey and told the news...
First, as always, came the pomp and the outpourings of adulation. A military band blared and a cheering throng waved yellow-and-white papal flags at Miami International Airport last week as Pope John Paul II emerged from a jumbo jet into the blazing Florida sun. Ronald Reagan and First Lady Nancy waited as the Pope, eight years after his last visit, stepped again onto U.S. soil to begin his long-awaited eleven-day, 17,000-mile pastoral journey.* Said John Paul on his arrival: "I come as a pilgrim, a pilgrim in the cause of justice and peace...
...owner of the tiny cell, a government worker, acquired it through a bribe and maintains it with the extra money he has made surreptitiously taping and transcribing each week for five years the American Top 40 Countdown, broadcast on a commercial station in Florida. By day he serves his country; by night, like many young Cubans, he dreams of escape. "If ever I get to the U.S.," he says with a wistful smile, "I could get a job in Hollywood. All my life I have learned how to act. Sometimes I smile inside, it is so crazy...
...usual gush of glitter without which outpourings of American emotion seem to be incomplete. Al Hirt will be trumpeting Ave Maria at a New Orleans Mass, while the city fathers, curing a lack that would never be noticed by the Pope, have imported 60 palm trees from Florida. Mayor Clint Eastwood's day will be made when he greets the Pope in Carmel. And in Detroit, Catholic Laymen Lee Iacocca and Tom Monaghan, of Chrysler and Domino's Pizza respectively, signed a letter raising funds "for the kind of welcome that all of us want to show the Holy Father...