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By European standards, Americans often seem inappropriately dressed. When vacationing, says the author, they "wear clothes suitable for a trip to a disaster area, or for a visit to a zoo or a museum: comfortable, casual, brightly colored, relatively cheap: not calculated to arouse envy or pick up dirt." At...
Now the scandal may be that followers of college sports are incapable of being scandalized. The well-known climate of corruption, exploitation and hypocrisy is also well-documented, if only in the National Collegiate Athletic Association's own rap sheets, so hard to keep up with these days. What...
Although he handled himself well under questioning, Stockman remains, in effect, on probation. While 32 of the 53 Republican Senators signed a letter to Reagan supporting Stockman and pleading, "We need him as part of the team," Senator Paul Laxalt, the President's confidant, significantly did not. Moreover, a...
8--Wichita State. The Shockers have two great forwards returning in Cliff Levingston and Antoine Carr. They have added two of last year's most highly recruited schoolboy prospects in 7-ft. 1-in, center Greg Dreiling and 6-ft. 4-in. back-court man Aubrey Sherrod. But none of...
Take New York City. The already swarming Rikers Island "correctional facility," 99 per cent full to capacity a year ago, is now crowded more than 10 per cent above its formal limits. Yet Mayor Edward Koch continues to blast "soft judges" who refuse to lock up all offenders. Meanwhile, Koch...