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...Nicaragua alone, where 3,800 were thought dead, much of the landscape looks as barren as the moon. Starving, sallow-skinned children, many suffering cholera from the fetid waters that destroyed their homes, begged for food on the crumbled, mud-slick roads between Managua and the flooded northern sierras...
Soon, Bobby is back on the sidelines as the waterboy of the worst team in college football history, the Mud Hens, with a record fifty-one consecutive loses. The bumbling leader of this pathetic team is Coach Klein (Henry Winkler), who immediately befriends the confused Bobby. Once again, Bobby finds himself taunted and harrassed by the cruel athletes, but this time Coach Klein suggests that he should fight back. And does he ever. The years of repressed anger rush to the surface, as Bobby visualizes all those people that have hurt him in the past. The result is a leaping...
...wrestling.Even after the opponent has scored a touchdown,Bobby rushes into the end zone with a powerfulflying kick to the chest, or administering a bodyslam on a seven-foot linebacker. Adam Sandler isthe ultimate under-dog and plays the role toperfection, winning the support of the localLouisiana community. The Mud Hens soon findthemselves in the Bourbon Bowl against Bobby's oldemployers, Coach Red and the University ofLouisiana football team...
...Rule. In 1992 Iowa Senator Tom Harkin decided to seek the presidency; his fellow Democrats left the Hawkeye State to the native Hawkeye. While that left Iowa's hoteliers and restaurateurs in despair, it liberated a few thousand of us from the joys of standing ankle-deep in frozen mud while a candidate talked to four shivering Iowans, seven cows and 35 camera crews...
...Though mud-slinging in the Cellucci-Harshbarger gubernatorial election attracted a lot of press, state politics deserves more attention from journalists, said Edward M. Fouhy, executive director of the Pew Center on the States at an Institute of Politics (IOP) study group yesterday...