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...Paterno always said ‘you’re never as good as you think you are when you win, and you’re never as bad as you think you are when you lose.’” Mike says...
...through more than a decade of autocratic rule. Millions lined the funeral route and repeated her nickname as if saying the rosary: "Cory, Cory, Cory." If she had agreed to let the massive demonstrations of outrage pass in front of the presidential residence, Malacañang Palace, said Vicente Paterno, a Marcos official who would later be her ally, "that could have toppled Marcos." But it would be nearly three years before she would learn to take advantage of her power. Instead, she concentrated on the fractious opposition, using her moral influence to help it choose a leader to oppose...
...itself suffered silently through more than a decade of autocratic rule. Millions lined the funeral route and repeated her nickname as if saying the rosary: "Cory, Cory, Cory." If she had agreed to let the massive demonstrations of outrage pass in front of Malacañang Palace, said Vicente Paterno, a Marcos official who would later be her ally, "that could have toppled Marcos." But it would be nearly three years before she would learn to take advantage of her power. Instead, she concentrated on the fractious opposition, using her moral influence to help it choose a leader to oppose...
...aristocrats on Philadelphia's Main Line to the bluest of blue-collar guys in the bars of Aliquippa. It's urban; it's rural. It's the Mellon Bank; it's the United Mine Workers. It's Swarthmore; it's South Philly. It's Andy Warhol; it's Joe Paterno. In the Republic's early days, someone dubbed Pennsylvania the Keystone State because it was the place where North joined South. Today it is a psychic keystone. Pennsylvanians have supplied our money, oil, coal, steel--and now our zeitgeist...
Even in a sterling year for college football--Notre Dame's resurgence under former New England Patriots offensive coordinator Charlie Weis, an unexpected hurrah out of near-octogenarian coach Joe Paterno at Penn State and no silly postseason polling controversies--Bush, 20, stood out. Says Texas head coach Mack Brown, who began his college career in 1973: "Reggie Bush is as good a running back as I've ever seen." And Brown will see him again soon. On Jan. 4, U.S.C. will take its gaudy 34-game winning streak into the Rose Bowl against undefeated Texas, which features sensational scrambling...