Word: marion
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...DIED. MARION TINSLEY, 68, math professor, world checkers champion and the first flesh-and-blood player to beat Chinook, a checkers-playing computer whose memory contains billions of positions; of cancer complications; in Humble, Texas...
...recent months the debate has grown even more intense, thanks in large part to two books, one published by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), a watchdog organization dedicated to blowing the whistle on anti-Semitism, and the other by Reverend Marion Gordon "Pat" Robertson, the former Republican presidential candidate and the founder and leader of the Christian Coalition...
...Marion ("Sandy") Sanford, a respected and putatively neutral Austin lobbyist, says, "This is not the N.R.A,; this is spontaneous combustion"--fueled by the same dread that has stoked the success of death-penalty campaigns and "Three strikes and you're in." The desire for self-preservation in the face of an increase in random violence and understaffed police forces can express itself, without paradox, in both an assault-weapons ban and in the desire to pack one's own handgun. Says Gary Huttenhoff, a real estate appraiser who has just picked up his laminated wallet-size permit from Sheriff Anderson...
Comedian BILL MAHER caused a lot of static at the Radio-Television Correspondents' Association dinner in Washington. Before a crowd that ranged from Bill and Hillary Clinton to Kato Kaelin, Maher drew boos when he joked about Senator Phil Gramm deporting his Korean-American wife and said D.C. mayor Marion Barry would get drugs off the city's streets "one gram at a time." Tough room...
William Kunstler is more than just a lefty defense attorney known for taking on unpopular clients like Colin Ferguson and Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman. He's also a poet, having just published a collection of sonnets, Hints & Allegations, which features works such as "The Trial of Marion Barry" ("When our officialdom has stooped so low/ We all must utter a resounding 'No!'") and "William H. Rehnquist" ("The thought that such a man could lead the Court/ Might well have made the Framers self-abort"). In fact, a number of prominent attorneys display bardic talent-as we discovered by repunctuating some...