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Meanwhile, brown-haired, brown-eyed, Grambling-educated Williams dutifully reported to the worst expansion franchise in pro football history, the 2-26 Tampa Bay Buccaneers. When two years later he lifted the Bucs to within a game of a Super Bowl, but no nearer, his reward was a rotten watermelon gift- wrapped by a racist fan. For peace as much as money, he eventually jumped to another league. When it folded in 1986, only Washington held out a job. At 32, five years older than Elway, Williams had been standing behind Jay Schroeder for a year and a half when...
...case of legacies, we grant that Harvard's private status gives it the right to bless its alumni with prestigous degrees for their children. But understand that Harvard remains loyal to its alums only because they reward their alma mater with financial gifts, or what the admissions statement euphemistically called "scholarship funds...
Meanwhile, Hawking is pursuing a more earthly reward, seeking what Cambridge Astronomer Martin Rees calls the physicists' Holy Grail: a theory that will combine general relativity with the quantum theory. This requires "quantizing" gravity, the only one of nature's four basic forces that cannot yet be explained by the quantum theory...
...trying to lay something on them. I prefer the backdoor approach. the paintings are meant to say, 'Welcome, Welcome.' Your enjoyment is my reward. It's something as mundane and stupid as all that." --Tom the Friendly Neighborhood Artist, explaining his artwork bolted on the back of parking sings throughout Cambridge. (10/21/87...
...U.S.S.R. is a highly uncertain art, but letters to the Soviet press often approve the idea of perestroika while simultaneously complaining that the writers have not seen much of it yet. Some polls disclose considerable grumbling that perestroika has so far meant only harder work for little measurable reward. Consumers may soon have to pay more for some of the necessities of life if Gorbachev follows through on his plan to trim or eliminate many state subsidies. The Kremlin boss rightly complains that the subsidies on bread, for example, make it so cheap that children sometimes use loaves as footballs...