Word: neale
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Democratic incumbent from Massachusetts in the House of Representatives won by less than 23 percent. Of all the races in which a Democratic incumbent was running, U.S. Rep. Richard E. Neal of the state's second district had the closest race winning by a final tally of 59 percent to 36 percent...
...Neal Rosendorf, who has been a teaching fellowin several history courses, says the historydepartment uses the CUE ratings as "one measureamong many...
...Neal Boortz, morning commentator for Atlanta's WSB, on the arrest of three local boys for attempted robbery, and a later fracas involving the boys' mother: "When the police came to her welfare house and knocked on this welfare queen's door and took her little predators away, this woman, who by the way was about the size of a phone booth -- she obviously puts her food stamps and welfare checks to good use! -- she was screaming like a stuck pig because the police were taking her little predator welfare tickets away! . . . Lady, your ((kids will)) go into the system...
...Winchell: Gossip, Power and the Culture of Celebrity by Neal Gabler (Knopf). Walter Winchell would have sent Rush Limbaugh out for coffee. Doubters among the uninstructed young are invited to read biographer Gabler's superb, richly detailed portrait of the grade-school dropout and vainglorious, third-rate ex-hoofer who, more than any other gossipist, invented the modern celebrity industry. His syndicated "colyums" and brassy, red-baiting broadcasts to "Mr. and Mrs. America and all the ships at sea" shaped U.S. lowbrow culture for the 1930s and '40s. When he died unlamented in 1972, Winchell was a lonely and bilious...
...Neal, a 21-year-old college student, knows he had a good time last September when he attended a costume party in suburban Los Angeles. He just can't remember it. After downing a dozen hits of vodka and cranberry juice, the University of Southern California senior staggered outside and passed out on a , nearby lawn. At 3 a.m., two strangers drove him back to campus. He fell over a bike rack, passed out again, then woke up to find one of L.A.'s finest snapping handcuffs on him. The police did not press charges, and the officer handed Neal...