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...strong prairie twang, Dole builds his pitch. "I know the difference between Michelangelo and Mapplethorpe," he says, "and your tax dollars shouldn't subsidize Mapplethorpe." The applause is real but uncertain. "Where's he going?" wonders a woman in the crowd. "What's that all about?" It's a common reaction...
...SALES PITCH WAS DAZZLING, THE promises irresistible. Dilapidated school buildings would be renovated, and fancy computer labs installed. Class size would go down, and test scores up. Less money would be spent on the bureaucracy, and more where it counted: on the students. And Hartford's public schools would maybe slowly raise themselves out of the gutter of the Connecticut school system. All this, and more, was hoped for last year when Education Alternatives, Inc. landed a five-year contract to run Hartford's entire 32-school district and its $200 million budget...
Deliverance at last for pretty Ariana after her ordeal. Kidnapped from her classroom by violent outlaws. Imprisoned in the wild with only a slop pail. Forced to endure the pitch-black terrors of a deep cave. Safe at last in her aunt's warm house, she gives thanks. "How wonderful," she muses, "to know that God never lost control...
Russell said the area was "completely deserted" and "pitch dark" at the time, and that streetlights lining the park had been out for weeks...
Throughout each of these irksome losses, there has been one constant: a lack of creativity on the part of the coaching staff. OK, not a total lack of creativity. The Harvard coaching braintrust did try a reverse against Columbia and an option pitch in the end zone against Dartmouth...