Word: monsterous
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Deploring the "monster" of sports in America today, Richard "Digger" Phelps, former head basketball coach at the University of Notre Dame, discussed reforming intercollegiate athletics and using sports to keep children of America's cities away from drugs and violence in a speech last night at the Harvard Education Forum...
JIMMY CARTER may one day win the Nobel Peace Prize, but a Nobel for Literature probably isn't in his future--despite the impending publication of his first work of fiction, The Little Baby Snoogle-Fleejer. This story of a kindly sea monster who befriends a crippled boy is illustrated by AMY CARTER, now a graduate art student, and will be published in November. How did dad and daughter work together? "Amy's illustrations startled me at first, but I have grown to love them," says Carter, who created the tale for his children when they were young. The Prez...
...inexorably to devastation of the earth's northern lands. On America's own arctic frontier, the U.S. Congress stands poised to allow oil exploration of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska, something a soon-to-be-released Interior Department report says would cause "irreparable harm." There is a monster lurking in the frigid reaches of the north, and it is not Frankenstein's. It is our legacy of environmental destruction. GEOFFREY RAPP Cambridge, Massachusetts...
...ninth inning had some atmosphere, too, but certainly less than I had expected. Sure, people cheered and banged on the green monster, but they were somehow more reserved for the most part...
...case, Medicaid is not the largest health insurance monster that the Republicans will have to confront. Medicare, as the primary insurer for 31 million Americans, outranks Medicaid's 21 million. Unfortunately, Republicans shudder with the mention of cuts in any program for the elderly, one of their prime constituencies. They'll probably end up leaving Medicare for 1997, with the hope that a Republican president will make their job easier...