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...more than two decades, scrappy long-distance carrier MCI has clamped onto AT&T like a demented terrier on a mailman's ankle and refused to let go. It was MCI's antitrust charges against the old Ma Bell that led to the breakup of AT&T's telephone monopoly. Now MCI is joining forces with British Telecommunications--Britain's formerly state-owned telephone company--to form an empire with the clout to go phone-to-phone around the world with AT&T and other giants...
...with a series of fresh, wiseacre promos titled "Same Game, New Attitude." They include the Phillies' Lenny Dykstra jumping into a mosh pit, Yankee first baseman Tino Martinez on the couch of a shrink who happens to be a Don Mattingly fan, and Cal Ripken getting razzed by his mailman, who asks, "I don't suppose you've had to deal with any rabid Dobermans at shortstop, Mr. Streak?" Fox will also do a kids' pregame show, In the Zone, to lure future fans whose bedtimes have kept them from seeing the World Series...
Sometimes, when the weather was just too rough, Kaczynski would hitch a ride into town with the mailman. He would come into Lincoln to use the phone, or read endlessly at the library--Montana newspapers (the librarian did not subscribe to out-of-state papers), books in Spanish and German (usually borrowed from other libraries), issues of Scientific American and Omni. Once a month or so, he would visit the grocery store and load staples into his backpack: Spam and canned tuna and flour. He was strange, the townspeople said, but no stranger than others who had come to hide...
...read the papers every day for war news, andwe watched for the mailman like hawks. Like manyothers, I was engaged to be married, although notto Normal Mailer, and I wrote and received aletter every day. As Harvard students left, Navyand Army officer training a sprinkling ofMexicans, Greeks and Chinese in my economicscourses, which combined graduate students withupper level undergraduates...
...mailman from the blue-collar town of McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania, Kasich, in an act of college rebellion upon reaching Ohio State University, rejected his Democratic roots in favor of the populist, antibureaucratic doctrine. But whatever complaints he may have about government, he nonetheless has spent his entire career on the public payroll. (``I'm going to end up in the private sector,'' he vows. ``At some point, I'm out of this.'') His first job after graduating from college in 1974 was as an aide in the state senate, and within four years he had won a seat there...