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...dawn patrol at NBC'S Today show. One frustrating morning she awoke especially early to catch a ride into the studio in Jane Pauley's limousine. It was sent to the wrong address. Pauley got to work on time that day, but Cronin was forced to hail a cab. Says she: "Getting up at that hour must be very difficult to get used to. I kept waking up all night worrying what time...
Such was the case Saturday. The Yale offense managed one long drive on the day, and even on that one, the Elis could only score on a fourth-and-19 Hail Mary pass into the endzone, on which Harvard botched the coverage...
...inside a modest frame house for the funeral of a local official of Prime Minister Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU) party. Suddenly an armed band of renegades attacked the group. A hand grenade was lobbed inside the house, and the walls were raked with a hail of automatic fire from Soviet-made AK-47s. Four of the mourners were killed; 16 were wounded...
...would need for a clear victory. All eyes would then shift to the other side of the Capitol, where regardless of a likely Republican net gain the Democrats will remain in power, and Mondale would have little trouble outpolling George Bush. The Marine Corps Band could conceivably be playing "Hail to Fritz" until 1983, when a new Congress would try to pick a permanent president...
...redeeming value or at least some source of moral relief in that thought, Jong brings us Fanny, seven years after Isadora--the woman who admitted she was flattered when her lover felt at ease farting in her presence--slept her way to stardom in Fear of Flying. Some will hail Fanny as a reflection of Jong's maturation as a writer. In a sense, that analysis is correct--if Isadora was raunchy, then Fanny Hackabout-Jones is downright base...