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...Schoolboys strive to emulate him. And girls by the thousands dreamily chant his name whenever he appears ... George Best is the name, and his fans hail him as the most glamorous, most electrifying soccer player ever to come out of the British Isles. Says Danny Blanchflower, a onetime soccer great in his own right: 'Best's movements are quick, light, balletic. He is a master of control and manipulation. And with it all, there is his utter disregard for danger.' Long of hair and short of temper, Best, 23, has been a marked man since 1968, when...
...emigrated, according to the Paris-based Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development. Remittances to poor countries can also mask the fact that they don't produce much at home. In the western Mali district of Kayes - where Waly's village of Ambadedi is located and where most migrants hail from - the region has done so well that farmers use remittances as a crutch. Studies have shown that they spend less time on their land than farmers in other parts of Mali: there is more money to be made by migrating to Europe. "You see poverty other places, but here...
Marra will be the first president to hail from the Radcliffe Quadrangle in recent memory...
...while Byerly makes a concerted effort to attract disadvantaged students, Fitzsimmons remains sympathetic to the hurdles faced by applicants who hail from wealth. “We’re beating the life out of students with privilege,” he told students at the April forum, describing the regimen of test prep, Advanced Placement courses, and parental pressure in college-crazed communities where university acceptance can be more status symbol than golden opportunity...
...residents of Dover, PA., are visited with disaster anytime soon--a flood, an earthquake, a hail of fire and brimstone--no one can say Pat Robertson didn't warn them. Doverites voted last week to oust all eight members up for re-election on the school board that had mandated the mention of "intelligent design," or i.d., in biology classrooms. By doing so, the televangelist said on his TV talk show, The 700 Club, "you just voted God out of your city...