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...Tuesday morning, Reagan took a highly publicized horseback ride with Queen Elizabeth through Windsor Home Park. Reagan's chestnut gelding, Centennial, donated to the royal stables by the Canadian Mounties, was certainly no match for the spirited steeds the President rides in the U.S. With stiff upper lip, a palace aide described the horse as "reasonable." Reagan paused to exchange inane but affable banter with reporters. Queen Elizabeth, wearing a yellow scarf, listened for a while, looking distinctly displeased, then began to ride off. A moment later, Reagan followed. British and American accounts of the royal family...
...even tried to pass off George Foreman as a Belgian.) Yet he never sounded as mean spirited, as hateful and hurt, as Holmes does now. "If Cooney wasn't white, he'd be nothing," says Holmes. "I'm going to cut him, hurt him, open his lip, blacken his eye?for justice's sake. They talk about his great left hook. But what am I, a little child? He's two inches taller [maybe three or four]. Big deal. I'm going to carry him to punish him. And when the referee breaks us, I'm going...
...transformations began early. Stallone was born in a New York City charity ward. A forceps delivery severed a facial nerve, paralyzing one side of his lip, chin and tongue. Though he is a colorfully articulate speaker, Stallone must carefully pick his way through sentences. Says he: "I've got what you'd call a Mafioso voice, and I'm self-conscious about it." Father Frank, a Sicilian immigrant, moved the family to Silver Springs, Md., and opened a beauty shop. His mother Jacqueline, a former "Long Stem Rose" chorine in a Billy Rose revue, started...
...committee "observed the letter, but not the spirit of having students involved," says Bill Betcher, a second-year student who helped conduct the student poll Betcher added that in "providing lip service to the exchange of views," the faculty created an atmosphere of mistrust even around proposals "that actually had some merit...
...called them, "homes.") I leave with a profound respect for their courage, because I got to know enough to share their pain and pride. I came here avoiding preppies, and leave firm in the knowledge that there are as many upper crushers worth knowing as not. "Diversity" wins more lip service than any other of the University's selling points; still and all, a lot of people talk about how much they like Steve's Ice Cream, and it tastes good nonetheless. It's not just that the admissions office had more sense than Brown and Stanford when it came...