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...state government functions in this cradle of democratic capitalism," said William F. Weld, the newly elected Republican Governor of Massachusetts, in his inaugural address. From the ornate chamber of Connecticut's General Assembly, Weicker, in office scarcely a month, told legislators: "Neither you nor I signed on to muck around for two to four years in the mistakes of the past...
...flat, lifeless mess -- the road kill of passing ideas? In that case there is less risk, but surely no joy at all. (Does the plagiarist ever feel joy?) Safer to steal the duller stones. None but the dreariest specialists will remember them or sift for them in the muck...
...than 80 young men and women are busy shoveling horse droppings at the elite Thacher School, a 425-acre sprawl of corrals and classrooms that combines New England-style prep-school life with the ethos of Western ranching. As part of their regimen, students must feed the horses and muck out their stalls before breakfast. Some students grumble about the early-morning chores, but most of them ultimately embrace the school's central belief that a connection exists between caring for a horse and conquering calculus. "Before I came here, it never clicked with me that I'd have...
...does have that type of jewelery," said Webster, "but it is a very common type of jewelery. The boots that were found are muck-ruck boots--heavy, cloggy boots, not the kind she would wear...
...Camarena's comrades in the DEA did not believe that the reckless, illiterate "Rafa" had acted alone. The agents suspected the brains behind the complex crime were members of Mexico's power elite, who had everything to lose from the relentless probing of Camarena and his partners into the muck of the Mexican narcotics trade...