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That's because in the 10-squareyard pen inhabited by the Redskins' offensive line, Schelerth is still an apprentice Hog...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Redskins, Bills Anticipate Super Sunday | 1/22/1992 | See Source »

...such thing as a "distinctively native American criminal class, except Congress." In 1906 Henry Adams, whose own father and grandfather had served in the House of Representatives, somewhat disapprovingly quoted a Cabinet member as follows: "You can't use tact with a Congressman! A Congressman is a hog! You must take a stick and hit him on the snout...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bums of the Year Congress. | 1/6/1992 | See Source »

...particularly moderate voice in the debate over Leonard Jeffries--the City College professor whose allegedly anti-Semitic, anti-white and anti-gay statements have been making headlines for months. But when reports emerged that Jeffries threatened the life of a Crimson reporter, Eliot Morgan, the Post went whole hog with front-page stories and lengthy editorials. Here's a sampling from a staff editorial that appeared yesterday...

Author: By Edited THIS Column. and Brian R. Hecht compiled, S | Title: Required Reading | 11/8/1991 | See Source »

...Governor Edwin Edwards, who revels in his image as a womanizer and gambler, once boasted that the only thing that could lose him an election was being caught in bed "with a dead girl or a live boy." One Governor who definitely did not embody the state's hog-stomping, hell-raising ethos was Buddy Roemer, with all his dour talk of austerity, responsibility and honor -- which goes a long way toward explaining why the voters just threw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why The Good Times Still Roll | 11/4/1991 | See Source »

...good man, generous, hog-on-ice independent, cheerful in a wry sort of way, more than halfway decent. But his life is coming apart. His wife has left him, of course, though his dog, a surly pit-bull cross called "dog," small d, has stayed. He has done some penitentiary time, for cop fighting, and won't be too surprised to find himself jugged again. His pickup truck needs a new transmission. So does...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Southern Pine | 10/28/1991 | See Source »

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