Word: pauls
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That comes as a great relief to Paul Graves, a snowboarding pioneer from Redding, Vermont, who has been fighting an uphill fight for 32 years. "In the early days," says Graves, "back when we were riding these primitive things called snurfers, skiers looked on us as lepers. I remember being escorted off Mammoth Mountain in California by the ski patrol and told never to come back." This week Mammoth is host to a special snowboard competition for women. At the Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan, in 1998, snowboarding will be introduced as a medal sport. (Park City, Utah, the site...
...game, however, is football. So look for the Darwinian, rich-get-richer, dancing and dissing Cowboys to become the first franchise to win six Super Bowls. And look for a forced smile from N.F.L. commissioner Paul Tagliabue as he hands over the trophy to his nemesis. Big Daddy no doubt will be swooshing at his fortune...
...code book--a list of the characters matched with their real-life counterparts. Around page 90 I gave up in exhaustion, having deciphered three dozen names (an insider's Who's Who that includes Grunwald, James Carville, Harold Ickes, David Wilhelm, Stan Greenberg, Bob Kerrey, Tom Harkin, Paul Tsongas and Mario Cuomo). Some of the portraits are so deliciously vicious, I can only assume the author is settling personal scores. Take this description of the fictional stand-in for Hillary's much feared close friend Susan Thomases: "She was awful beyond imagining. She was one of those people with...
...first case under the new initiative was filed last week in San Diego against a 21-year-old man who has been living with a 13-year-old girl in her mother's home; a hearing will be scheduled this week. "I expect some controversy," says San Diego D.A. Paul Pfingst, "but if we can make it clear that it's part of an overall strategy--not just a single silver bullet--to fight one of our most significant problems, I think it will win wide public support...
During oral argument, Deputy Solicitor General Paul Bender grabbed the rapt attention of the Justices when he harked back to a certain law school that refused to admit women, claiming they would run in tears from the lecture hall, unable to cope with the harsh Socratic method, the legal version of hazing. Five of the Justices recognized the school as their alma mater, Harvard Law School. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, one of the first women to get there, seemed to hold back a smile. VMI and the Citadel might want to start building those women's bathrooms...