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Stars have been used to sell breakfast at least since Olympian Bob Richards promoted Wheaties. But the presweetened concoctions that currently have little palates tingling may leave grownups fumbling for another cup of decaf or a couple of Tums. Hard on the heels of the cartoon craze and hit movie, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Cereal is doing kitchen box office. It consists of tiny, turtle-shaped marshmallow bits mixed with "Ninja Nets," pieces of khaki- colored wheat, which is used in adult cereal as well. The taste: concentrated marzipan...
...Nancy hit exceptionally well today," junior Rachel Donaldson said of the Junior Olympian...
...Crew was symolized in the McCagg Twins [Betsy and Mary] and [Olympian and stroke] Juliet Thompson," seven-seat Buriak said, "so it's weird not to have them around but we're still a pretty big boat, so I think we'll be fine. We weren't as fast as I wanted to be this weekend, but I'm sure it will work...
Unlike the Olympian detachment that is the traditional pose of Washington columnists, Safire projects a rumpled persona far closer to Walter Matthau's than Walter Lippmann's. His clothes are L.L. Bean, not Savile Row. Safire retains the unbuttoned style, the street-smart diction and the wry-not enthusiasms of a man who happily spent his formative years as a successful public relations flack in New York City. Where other conservative columnists like George Will and William F. Buckley can be precious and predictable, Safire prides himself on his reporting and contrarian thinking. "A column should not be a chore...
...late 1950s, the literary critic and historian Edmund Wilson found himself in trouble with the Internal Revenue Service. Preoccupied with big ideas and momentous events, scraping by on stipends and feeling generally Olympian, he had neglected to file income tax returns between 1946 and 1955. The distinguished delinquent eventually paid up, but to settle the score he wrote The Cold War and the Income Tax, a 118-page pained yawp that argued there was not much difference between the IRS and the KGB. "The truth," wrote Wilson in 1963, "is that the people of the United States...