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...bill has garnered support from an impressive number of state legislators, and many local citizen groups. Hap Tierney, the community representative for the Cambridge Council for Children (CCC) said the public sector can not resolve the child care problem alone...
Sure, the building at 1730 Cambridge St. looks like something that ate Tokyo, but walk inside, and one is treated to less frightening surroundings. Turn right past the lobby, and ente: OIT's terminal room. It was here that the Hap. v Hacker encountered the Deity, found Nirvana, and found God in the form of an Apple Laserwriter printer...
...either. A lot of parents tell their kids not to smoke cigarettes and they smoke cigarettes. Or they give you some idea of sexual modesty -- but my father lived that way. He believed that making love to someone is a very sacred thing and it shouldn't hap- pen until after you are married. He stuck by those beliefs, and that represented a very strong person to me. He was my role model...
...Hap," as most folks called Chandler then, and practically everyone does still, gave up a perfectly comfortable Senate seat because he imagined the work might be more restful than politics. "As Governor of Kentucky," says Chandler, 85, "I signed 36 death warrants. Two of them were hanged for rape in the courthouse yard." But as he was soon to learn-and as Ford Frick, Spike Eckert and Bowie Kuhn all discovered in turn-the commissioner's job is not unlike presiding at such an occasion while being the object of the exercise at the same time...
...Baseball owners," Hap says, "are the toughest set of ignoramuses anyone could ever come up against. They always have been. Refreshingly dumb fellows: greedy, shortsighted and stupid. They created this job in 1921 only because, after the 1919 Black Sox scandal, the American people needed a symbol of complete authority and absolute integrity. But I don't expect baseball ever really wanted a commissioner at all. When the clubs pushed me out in 1951, they had a vacancy and decided to keep...