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Such as it was, the Governor's thinking had less to do with politics than with his self-image, with his concern that a giant poised to lead a crusade might ultimately appear small and personally ambitious. Strange thoughts for a politician. Par for the course for Mario Cuomo...
Beginning the list of winless teams is Columbia. The Lions have been less than impressive while sliding to an 0-4 mark. Forward Par Downing (19 ppg) and guard Buck Jenkins (15 ppg) are among the league-leaders in scoring, though...
...takes money to bring students from worse school districts into better ones because you have to bring them up to par," Peterkin said. "Some--not all--of the students coming from the worse districts will have academic needs that the students already in the system don't have. At least some of the funds would have to go to helping these youngsters catch...
...holes, a stretch when even veteran players get the willies and lose major tournaments, Daly dealt with his mounting nervousness by playing harder. On the final hole of the tournament, he says, he took his biggest swing of the entire competition. It landed in the rough; Daly salvaged a par 4. "I came to the P.G.A. tournament with nothing to lose," he says, "and I think that had everything to do with winning it." Later, he improved on his spectacular triumph by promising $30,000 of the $230,000 prize to the children of a spectator killed by lightning...
...raising children. We slash school budgets and deny working parents the right to spend even a few weeks with their newborns. We spend 23% of the federal budget on the elderly but less than 5% on children. We refer to pregnancy as a "temporary disability," putting it on a par with breaking your...