Word: mark
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Wright spokesperson Mark Johnson said the Texas Democrat planned a weekend getaway with his wife Betty to an undisclosed location. One lawmaker close to the talks speculated that Wright would spend the time writing his final speech...
...return of ROTC to campus. I would never, however, suggest that all ROTC students are economically disadvantaged, nor that the money is the primary motive of most who participate in the program. To do so would be factually wrong and would ignore the idealism and dedication that mark these students, who are prepared to give their lives in defense of our country...
Veteran street performer Mark Farneth refrains from criticizing the police. Instead, he pins blame on a fellow juggler. "A while ago, he fell off his unicycle and broke a window," Farneth says. He says the failure to clear up the matter quickly with the storeowner led to a crackdown on all street entertainment...
...chronicler. Boston had its own superstar in Ted Williams, and that brings up the inevitable comparison between Halberstam's work and John Updike's classic account of Williams' last game, "Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu." Nearly 30 years later, Updike's achievement seems as secure as Williams' 1941 batting mark of .406. He turns out to be the better writer, even the tougher reporter. But readers who want to savor a memoir of two outsize ball clubs and the rude dawn of modern baseball can turn with relish to Halberstam...
...needs a guide to the free state of Theroux's imagination, it is this: like the author, the novel's hero, Andrew (sometimes Andre) Parent, was born and reared in Massachusetts, spent a good part of the '60s teaching and traveling in the Third World, and eventually made his mark as a London-based writer...