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...long has Green Bay been waiting? Well, the numeral on the Super Bowl was II, the A.F.L. and N.F.L. were still two leagues, and Lyndon Johnson was President. Reggie White was six, and Brett Favre hadn't been born yet. Winning was once the only thing in Green Bay, but after Vince Lombardi left in 1968, it became only an occasional thing, even when such legendary Packers as Bart Starr and Forrest Gregg took over as coach. Titletown, U.S.A., became something of a joke. As Willie Davis, the Reggie White of his day, said last week, "I was beginning...
...ninth grade," Gates recalls over dinner one night, "I came up with a new form of rebellion. I hadn't been getting good grades, but I decided to get all A's without taking a book home. I didn't go to math class, because I knew enough and had read ahead, and I placed within the top 10 people in the nation on an aptitude exam. That established my independence and taught me I didn't need to rebel anymore." By 10th grade he was teaching computers and writing a program that handled class scheduling, which had a secret...
...Sonia Ho recalls in careful but imperfect English, "When we first come to U.S., we don't know any words. David would come home from school and say, 'I don't know what they talking about.' I'd say, 'Oh, what are we going to do?'" Says David: "We hadn't even learned the ABC's. I remember being laughed at by classmates who thought I was dumb...
...This hadn't occurred to me until last week, when I was talking to a television reporter about the controversy over the rating system that will be used to offer parents guidance about which programs they may want to block. The television industry, which is in the enviable position of writing its own warning label, has resisted the content-based system favored by virtually everybody else, presumably on the theory that warnings of violent or suggestive content could scare off viewers and advertisers...
...Wednesday matinee that she would decline the nomination. "I have searched my conscience and my heart," said the actress, "and find that sadly I cannot accept this nomination and prefer to stand instead with the egregiously overlooked." Her sincerity would have played out a little better if somebody hadn't tipped off the TV news crews, who came rushing into the theater 30 minutes before the curtain...