Word: patricks
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...Idiot-Savant Handbook, by Ronald Patrick MacMurphy. In a few short pages (and huge bold type) the author explains how to remember what the weather was like every day for the last 100 years. My favorite, page 14: "May 27, 1932: It was cloudy." The book also explains how to remember what day of the week it was for every day of the last 500 years. For example, November 20, 1965 was a Saturday. The epilogue also tells you how to get on "60 Minutes" after memorizing the book...
...offense; a prominent political science professor wrote at the time, "The moral fiber of America itself stands revealed." Just as the Iran-contra hearings began as a road-show Watergate, it is easy to find other 20th century parallels to today's eviscerated ethics. As New York Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan puts it, "If you want to read about Tammy Bakker, read Sinclair Lewis. If you want to read about insider trading, read Ida Tarbell...
...despite indications that other witnesses may tell the House-Senate Iran-contra hearings that Casey knew more, much more, than he admitted, a great deal is likely to remain forever uncertain. Said Republican Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont after the CIA director died of pneumonia last week, following several months of illness: "There are some things about this scandal that he takes to the grave. Knowing Bill Casey, I think he'd prefer it that...
DIED. David Hefner, 38, AIDS sufferer whose request to renew his marriage vows to his wife Maria at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City, her "dream" church, was initially rebuffed last January because his condition was "life threatening," but then, after protests by civil rights and church activists, was granted in February; in New York City...
Historians and preservation groups argued before the commission that Immaculate Conception, designed by noted 19th century architect Patrick Charles Keely, was second only to Boston's Trinity Church in terms of religious landmarks in the city...