Word: jay
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...With reporting by Jay Branegan, Dean Fischer and Douglas Waller/Washington and Lisa Beyer/Jerusalem
...Blue Jays, 1992 AL Championship Series: Toronto Mayor Rowlands offered a frozen turkey for every run the A's scored (if the A's won). Oakland Mayor Harris offered a live goose and an MC Hammer doll for every Blue Jay...
This does not, of course, make the Lords a particularly energetic arm of the government. By one count, listening to Baroness Jay's speech last week, there were 76 bald heads, 16 mustaches, five walking sticks, three ear trumpets and one eye patch. The Earl of Longford, who carries an enormous magnifying glass, has been sitting in the Lords for 53 years...
...course, there will be one or two rebels, and they will have a few procedural tricks up their sleeves to make things hard for Baroness Jay. Chief rabble rouser will be the seventh Earl of Onslow, who has declared, "I will have no hesitation in stamping my foot, throwing stones, making the government's life absolutely beastly by forcing divisions, by putting down motions on standing orders. What fun to go out as a hooligan." But even Onslow had the good sense to add, "Any house which has me in it needs its head examined...
...launched his "I Am Your Child" foundation, produced a TV special on early brain development and promoted a federal bill that would have directed $11 billion of the tobacco settlement to children's programs. Now he trudges from Rotary Clubs and newspaper editorial boards to the sets of Jay Leno and Roseanne promoting his ballot initiative. "I feel like the cavalry coming to the rescue," says Reiner. "The tobacco industry can buy politicians, but our hope is they can't buy the public...