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...Wild Wayne Cowley: Although Cowley has graduated from Colgate, he will always be remembered as a true character of the ECAC. With long hair hanging out of his goalie mask, Cowley was the league's flashiest goalie. He was also one of the best. It seems appropriate that Cowley signed with the Calgary Flames of the NHL, because when he's hot, he's extremely tough to beat...
...something ethic, while Bush represents mainstream Republican skepticism of new Government programs. That choice undergirds the election, but never have the terms of philosophic battle been defined for the voters. This vagueness provides protective camouflage for Bush, who has artfully used evocative phrases like "a kinder, gentler nation" to mask the passivity of his domestic agenda. He has, to be sure, advanced his own proposals on education and day care, but they do not seem to spring from deep personal conviction. ! Rather, they have been offered to the voters -- and may someday even be enacted into law -- to take...
NATION: Bush and Dukakis mask their similarities, and a nasty campaign fails to highlight their telling differences...
...time he would construct a formidable "character" to mask his shyness: Degas the solitary, the feared aphorist, the Great Bear of Paris. He never married -- "I would have been in mortal misery all my life for fear my wife might say, 'That's a pretty little thing,' after I had finished a picture." He had a reputation for misogyny, mainly because he rejected the hypocrisy about formal beauty embedded in the salon nudes of Bouguereau or Cabanel -- ideal wax with little rosy nipples. "Why do you paint women so ugly, Monsieur Degas?" some hostess unwisely asked. "Because, madam, women...
...Committee, reports that no-penalty testing in 1983-84 found that 20% to 50% of U.S. athletes were doping. Current formal testing in the U.S. turns up positives at a rate of 2% to 3%. Athletes' understanding of how to beat the tests by using either extra drugs that mask the performance-enhancing ones or by getting off the stuff in time to clear their systems accounts for the difference. Says Dr. Bertram Zarins, a team physician for the New England Patriots and Boston Bruins: "Athletes are always a step ahead of any testing program...