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ALBANY, N.Y.--Splashing through a sea of mud, the controversial South African Springboks played an American rugby team Tuesday night, hours after U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall refused to stop the game...
Your Essay "Where Have All the Insults Gone?" [Aug. 31] reminded me of a classic rebuff uttered by American Congressman and Statesman Thaddeus Stevens. While crossing a mud-covered Lancaster, Pa., street on a wooden plank in the mid-1800s, Stevens confronted a political adversary coming toward him on the same narrow walkway. His rival called out in disdain, "I never step aside for scoundrels!" Stevens quickly stepped back off the plank and into the ankle-deep mud and replied, "I, on the other hand, always...
...going to show Harvard that we're not going to mess around. And you can tell Mr. Powers that we're going to stop getting stuck in bureaucratic mud...
...Cliff, Deadman's Island. Legs braced, he peers at the radar as Second Mate Rod Doe, 22, calls out compass bearings. Haifa mile in front, another tug, Navigator, comes across shallow water and its tow chains drag along the bottom, kicking up swirling brown puffs of gravel and mud. Minutes later, when Cavalier's tow chains drag, the entire boat shudders and bucks like a horse suddenly reined tight. The crew grimaces, for the rough sand and gravel can grind even 2¼ -in. steel tow wires into whiskers...
...real authority. Yet Jesse Helms' Congressional Club is the very model of modern, high-technology politics, a shrewd mating of computers and direct mail. Helms and his minions have built what amounts to their own nationwide political machine. It has combined newfangled fund raising with old-fashioned mud slinging to become one of the most powerful forces in American politics...