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...shock even to Bush aides, who made a last-minute decision to dispatch Bush to West Virginia on the day before the first debate. Hoping to reverse the trend, Gore responded last week with an ad blasting Bush on the minimum wage, and the unions are kicking into gear on the ground: the United Mine Workers are considering an Election Eve blizzard of 10,000 phone calls...
Licensees participating in the process include Champion and Gear for Sports, the two largest suppliers of Harvard apparel, as well as Adidas-Salomon, Jansport, Nike and others...
...Guston himself provided a fascinating metaphor for his mid-career transformation: "I felt like an explorer who almost got to the top of Mt. Everest and somehow stopped just short and remembered and thought, 'Well, perhaps, maybe I forgot some gear,' you know, 'I forgot some equipment.' I took some side paths that looked exciting, full of possibilities. What equipment did I lack? It was a stronger contact with the thickness of things." But abandoning the summit of Mt. Everest in search of new equipment proved a bold move indeed. Completely renouncing non-figurative art at a time when...
...Even the 100[degree] temperature and nearly 100% humidity don't seem to slow him down. It is only when he reaches the hamlet of Mason's Bend and the home of Alberta Bryant that this bear of a man with a bushy graying beard slips into low gear and momentarily seems to surrender to the heat. Plopping down on Bryant's couch, Mockbee rests his straw hat to the side and catches up with one of his studio's earliest clients...
...Northwestern games. Lee agreed and later recruited starting center Dewey Williams and a third player. A college friend put Pendergast in touch with an acquaintance, Brian Irving, who lived in Reno and agreed to place the bets. Over the next few weeks, Pendergast and Irving put the plan into gear. Three Northwestern games were selected: against Wisconsin on Feb. 15, Penn State on Feb. 22 and Michigan on March 1. Once the Nevada sports books set the line, Pendergast would telephone Lee with that number. Northwestern, the underdog in all three games, had to lose each by more than...