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Absent seven players from last year's squad--including five starters--Centenary is trying its best to keep up the winning tradition. After a 2-4 start (including losses to then-fourth-ranked SMU and NAIA leader Midwestern St.) the Gentlemen have swept their last seven contests...
...experts with varied political backgrounds--including a top Jackson campaign official and a Midwestern lieutenant governor--will be fellows at the Kennedy School's Institute of Politics (IOP) this semester...
...trouble for Chubb, the 16th largest U.S. property and casualty insurer (assets: $9.2 billion). Reason: the Warren, N.J., company inadvertently plunged too deep into the rain-insurance business. Chubb's policies, designed to reimburse farmers for crop damage due to low rainfall, sold faster than roadside lemonade in ten Midwestern and Southern states last June, before the full impact of the drought was apparent. By the June 15 application deadline, Chubb's independent managing agent, Good Weather International of Jericho, N.Y., had received more than 8,700 applications for $350 million in coverage. & That was nearly 70 times the amount...
...priest? Why, virtually everything Powers had written till then had been about Roman Catholic clergymen in out-of-the-way Midwestern parishes. He had established himself as an uncannily intimate chronicler of their workaday / lives away from the altar: their immersions in church politics and fund raising, their intramural feuds and poker-table cronyism, their struggles with vinegary housekeepers, booze and loneliness. Not that Powers by any means fell into the cozy category of "Catholic writer"; his vision, though compassionate, was too unsparing for that. Still, a Powers book without a priest would be like -- well, a John Cheever book...
...Lansing, Mich., which houses the hutch, have announced they will dismantle the operation that once employed 45 Bunnies and on one Valentine's Day attracted a crowd of 200 to watch a performance by another anachronism, Tiny Tim. It was the last of five franchises that sprang up in Midwestern cities in the 1980s, when Playboy Enterprises President Christie Hefner, Hugh's daughter, attempted to revive the company's club division...