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...Late Show - Pat Farmer and Kenny Sheehan, David Letterman stagehands, give Oprah Winfrey Show scripts a deadpan interpretation...
...Roger Staubach and Joe Namath, new Hall of Fame quarterbacks from the Naval Academy and Alabama, Dallas and New York City. During the late '60s and early '70s, they were on the opposite ends of every spectrum. In a Fu Manchu mustache, Namath played Elvis Presley to Staubach's Pat Boone. But they came to be stuffed and mounted together and cried along with Simpson during the inductions at Canton, Ohio. As Namath searched the sky for a hangdog man in a houndstooth hat, the late Alabama coach Bear Bryant, he also shared the honors with Pete Rozelle, a football...
...grandparents raising grandchildren. And many reason that pushing issues like children's health care makes cash-strapped lawmakers more conscious of guarding benefits such as Medicare for their other fragile constituency, the aged. "It's not just that we're afraid Florida doesn't care enough about children," says Pat Stripling, 60, head of Grandparents Raising Grandchildren in Miami, who is lobbying for juvenile-justice reform this spring. "We're worried it doesn't care enough about the elderly anymore either...
...threshold of greatness (Bjorn Borg, who reached the quarter finals in 1973 at 17; John McEnroe, who gained the semis at 18 in 1977). On the other hand, think of Chris Lewis, who made it to the finals in 1983, and last year's quarterfinalist Paul Annacone and semifinalist Pat Cash, who have yet to convert their moments of glory into a permanent condition...
...long time. The warehouse at Ujina ordinarily was used to store food for the soldiers. Now it stored people, who sat dazed with their backs to the walls. The first thing I saw on coming to was a soldier's face looking into mine. He gave me an affectionate pat on the head. Perhaps it was he who removed the piece of wood from my arm, for the wood was gone now, and my arm was in great pain. Another soldier who had medical training was working his way around the warehouse, going from victim to victim. When he came...