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...stylized businessman who appears on the fares, holding one of his now-eponymous tickets aloft, is a reincarnation of Charlie, the hapless commuter popularized by the Kingston Trio, a folk group, in a 1959 recording...
Harvard was outscored by 15 runs—its worse defeat since last March, when the team lost to Texas Tech 30-8—in falling to the Rams at Bill Beck Field in Kingston...
...Jack Kingston of Georgia spent his recess going to Social Security town halls and testing another proposal: the lockbox. In 2000, Al Gore campaigned on the idea of putting the surpluses that Social Security currently generates into a so-called "lockbox" that would prevent the government from spending the money on other things as it does now. Kingston notes many Republicans also have had this same idea and it would help mobilize public support that would give Congress credibility for a more ambitious Social Security reform in a few years...
...Kingston tried to find younger people, who usually aren?t as opposed to changes as the elderly, to encourage them to speak. But at the town hall at Coastal Georgia Community College, after an elderly woman said she didn't like personal accounts because young people "don't know anything about investing" the handful of people under 40 weren't eager to speak. In Pearson, Georgia at a senior citizens center, Kingston kept trying to get a man who said he was 29, the lone young person in the room, to chime and say he could live with raising...
...event in Richmond Hill, Kingston praised a father and daughter who had come to the event together, but in a way that suggested Bush's plan may be nearing its death. "One of the great things about this debate," Kingston said, "even if this debate doesn't do anything else, but you go out and save your money, that might be the best thing that could be done...