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...SATURDAYS AGO IN CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa, but it could be anywhere, any day on the campaign trail. Freed from the weekly Senate grind, Dole is suffering another punishing round of stump appearances. He is serving up the red-meat, conservative lines the campaign insists will win the nomination. The audience has already been shown a 13-minute video titled Bob Dole: An American Hero. The film cost $167,000 to produce and distribute and has the feel of Morning in America, the famous, upbeat Ronald Reagan video. Dole's film is heavy on the story of his road back from...
...Washington soup kitchen, and finds time for the Red Cross, CARE and Best Friends, Elayne Bennett's program for inner-city girls.) As her husband's career advanced, Alma had to perform a series of increasingly public roles. She excelled, but didn't always enjoy the social grind that might take her from the coffee held in honor of the fashion show held by the officers' wives, to the Red Cross lunch meeting, to the reception for the wife of the Trinidadian Security Minister. Alma leaves friends in stitches by describing hellish dinner parties at which Colin always seems...
...book: the simple Ariana endures her imprisonment by learning it; a sophisticated Senator has it always at hand (in Colson's novel), as does a Lakers basketball star (in Robertson's). A disproportionate number of good men happen to be carpenters. Prayer, usually printed in italics, abounds. Many narratives grind to a halt for thinly disguised Bible classes. Robertson pads his story this way. Phrases like "jump down to verses twelve and thirteen" thud into conversation...
Although Coach Tim Murphy continues to preach a balanced attack, Harvard has focused on a ball-control, grind-it-out offense so far this season that is centered around junior tailback Eion Hu. Fordham's attack, however, is wide-open and quarter-back-centric...
Seles has grown in other ways. Her musical tastes went from Madonna to Hendrix. During her time off, she studied French and learned to shoot pool and play the guitar, even buying a Fender Stratocaster. She may have had another ax to grind. Seles is still annoyed at the way she was treated by her sisters on the tour. "They were supportive of me the day I was stabbed," she told the New York Times, "but by the next Monday in Rome they were already standing up to take my ranking away. Gabby [Gab riela] Sabatini was the only person...