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According to budget office figures, 852 fewer students have enrolled for this semester than last fall semester, this is 723 fewer students than were projected for this fiscal year. The GW Hatchet, the university's newspaper, reported recently...
...days before the broadcast, the Administration, fearing a hatchet job, asked to screen the program and to be given air time to respond. CBS turned down this unprecedented and highly intrusive request. The Administration's fears about the show stem from growing White House concern that Reagan is viewed as insensitive to the poor. That view is likely to be strengthened by a Congressional Budget Office report saying that the proposed budget cuts for fiscal 1983, like the ones enacted this year, will fall heavily on those who make $10,000 a year or less...
...SCHAAP saves Steinbrenner! from becoming an easy hatchet job by accepting the controversial owner on his own terms: his refusal to make the book a compendium of New York Post columns turns Steinbrenner! into a valid, if often irreverent biography. Realizing that the owner has zealously shielded his wife and children from the press, for instance, Schaap resists the temptation to delve into Steinbrenner's family life. He does, however, rightly chide the owner for hiding behind his family, Schaap's recounting of the numerous times that his subject refused to talk with reporters, lying that his wife...
...standby too, as are blaming modernity, one's mother, the computer and the post office. "The dog ate my homework" is a favorite with schoolchildren. And a new plane of inventiveness was reached recently when a Virginia man killed his mother-in-law in the garage with a hatchet and explained that he mistook her for a raccoon...
There never seems to have been a doubt that Montana would become some sort of ballplayer. His father was chiefly responsible for his dedication to games and, it could be argued, was the dedicated one. Joe Sr. is a trim and youthful, silver-haired and hatchet-faced man, just 49, born on the same day but a year after Walsh. He is the custodian of his only child's memorabilia and his own memories. The "fundamentals" he preached to the boy were learned in the Navy, where Joe Sr. played all the games. He had filled out slowly...