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...prosperity that has been generated under French-educated President Félix Houphouët-Boigny, 78, who has ruled the country since it became independent from France in 1960. With its sleek office towers dominated by the elliptical 30-story post office building, the modular Banque Internationale pour le Commerce et l'Industrie and the new Abidjan Hilton, the city's profile is reminiscent of Florida's Epcot Center. Traffic across the Pont Général De Gaulle bustles every bit as much as along the Arlington Memorial Bridge in Washington, D.C., and even...
...give or take an occasional shouted grotesquerie ("Break their arms off, break their legs off, we love football!"), they finally came to life. Champagne was produced for the hanky-waving ritual, and the flow of Mumm inspired Will Moore, the 6-ft. 6-in. drum major, to pour a quart or two into his size-13 sneaker and drink from it. Other bandies joined...
...Quentin and Attica are but two examples of the nation's dangerously overcrowded prisons. Across the nation, institutions are glutted with inmates who continue to pour into cell blocks at an unprecedented rate. The state and federal prison population, currently 432,000, has doubled in the past ten years and sets a record every time new federal figures are published. In just the past two years, the population has increased by more than 80,000 inmates, even though the national crime rate is in decline...
Scripps-Howard is the Cincinnati-based chain that owned the Press-Scimitar, and it made no secret that it shut the paper to pour its resources into its other Memphis paper, the Commercial Appeal, and to make more money. With the cessation of the Press-Scimitar, the Commercial Appeal raised its advertising rate 10%. The "Howard" in the name of the chain belonged to the late Roy Howard, who once set America on fire by wrongly filing, on Nov. 7, 1918, the end of World War I. Armistice came four days later. Howard was a small man who kept...
...Republican Senator Alan Simpson of Wyoming and Democratic Congressman Romano Mazzoli of Kentucky, the legislation was the product of seven years of work by a national commission, a presidential task force and half a dozen congressional committees. The need for reform was clear enough: more than a million-illegals pour over U.S. borders every year...