Word: mountings
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Emmett Watson, a curmudgeonly columnist for the Seattle Times, has conducted an anti-California crusade for years. MOUNT THE RAMPARTS! FIGHT CALIFORNICATION! exhorts the headline of a recent Watson tirade. The columnist is the founder of Lesser Seattle, an antibooster organization that seeks to "keep the bastards out" by exaggerating the city's negative characteristics, such as its notorious rainfall. The organization's slogan: "Have a Nice Day -- Somewhere Else!" Watson insists that his crusade is tongue in cheek, but many newly arrived Californians take less satirical slurs to heart. "Our very first day the Welcome Wagon lady called...
LETN's audience, which so far includes 725 police agencies in 48 states, gives the network solid reviews. "It's sharpening us all up and eliminating some schooling," says Captain Randy Stienstra of the Mount Dora, Fla., police department. Ten states have certified LETN as a vehicle for earning in-service training credits for promotion. The network's original programming totals two hours each day and is replayed continuously, allowing cops to wedge in their viewing during off-hours. The story line is unabashedly pro-police. "We make no apologies for it," says news director Larry Estepa. "Police are getting...
...general's gift of being the man you automatically follow," says Richard Briers, who plays Bardolph in the film Henry and will assay King Lear in the Renaissance's tour of the U.S. next year. Branagh needed that royal self-assurance to build a major acting company and mount a large film. He will need more of it to sustain his career at its current velocity. "Quite soon," says Terry Hands, the RSC's artistic director, "Ken must decide whether he will be an admin man or a great actor. If a leading actor is also running the whole show...
More than 20 students at Mount Holyoke College, in South Hadley, Mass., have received calls identical to those reported at Harvard, in which a male caller purports to be a police officer, a Mount Holyoke police official said yesterday...
When the calls began about three weeks ago, Mount Holyoke police responded by circulating a security alert, telling students to immediately hang up on any caller meeting the police description, the official said...