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...Democrats will abandon their traditional commitment to helping the disadvantaged? "The notion of fairness is not being rejected," D.N.C. Chairman Paul Kirk gamely insisted. "The middle class is just saying, 'Don't forget us.'" Kirk may wish that party officials would forget the poll. He has ordered them to quit talking about it until the complete findings are released later this month. CULTS Farewell to Rancho Rajneesh...
...Rockne's "Rockette" shifts and one-on-one blocking schemes that made every play of the '20s a potential touchdown. To Irish fans, it seems a reasonable expectation. Winning too much in the '40s, Leahy was broken in the '50s by losing at all. After eleven storied years Parseghian quit in 1974, officially because his blood pressure was zooming, ostensibly because the University of Southern California came from 24 points behind to beat Notre Dame by 31. The truth is, if a score nudged him out, it was a 14-6 victory over Navy that so many of Parseghian...
...coming-of-age novel, Red X, quickly sold out, but there has not been a second printing. Li, 23, has refused the publisher's request to edit out what it called "morally offensive" passages. Li can't yet support his parents so that they can quit their factory jobs. "Maybe this year I can make enough money for them to retire," says Li. Then two ghosts will leave the city, but there will always be millions more to take their place. --By Hannah Beech/ Guangzhou...
...farm, he had daily chores that included milking the cows twice a day. Greenberg soon proved his talents and his competitive drive. He was a starting football player--his athletic ability earned him the nickname Hank, after the baseball great of that era with the same name. He quit school to go to war in 1942 and, after his battalion landed on Omaha Beach under fire, went on to liberate the Dachau concentration camp. After the war, he finished high school supported only by the "52-20" unemployment package for ex-G.I.s: $20 a week for a year...
...must it be when a party's best candidate for the presidency is into his third year of retirement - and quit politics after a humiliating rout in the last presidential race? Lionel Jospin, 67, the former French Prime Minister who lost the 2002 presidential battle in the first round, has emerged as the favorite to lead the 2007 challenge for the presidency by France's Socialist Party (PS). That result comes after two leading PS contenders tangled. Laurent Fabius, 58, was ousted as the party's second-in-command last week in a move led by PS first secretary Fran...