Word: santas
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DIED. Abbye Stockton, 88, trailblazer for women's weight-lifting known as the First Lady of Iron, who in 1947 organized the first official lifting meet for women; in Santa Monica, Calif. With husband Les, Stockton--nicknamed Pudgy for her childhood baby fat--helped popularize Muscle Beach in Santa Monica in the 1930s and '40s with demonstrations that included the human pyramid and the high press, in which she stood on Les' hands while balancing a 100-lb. barbell...
...Indeed, while Berkeley may be the first city to put an impeachment resolution to its people, numerous city and town councils have already passed such resolutions, including San Francisco, Santa Cruz, and Chapel Hill, N.C. State legislatures in Vermont, California and Illinois all have impeachment resolutions pending. To help raise awareness of the issue, there will be a series of teach-ins across the country this summer and fall, and a new film, "How to Impeach a President," will be screened - all part of the burgeoning impeachment effort called "Constitution Summer," led by a non-partisan coalition of students from...
...basic ingredient of a spiritual life. No matter how often he invokes Scripture, Enron's founder, Ken Lay, will never learn that stealing is wrong until he finds some of that elusive characteristic. But there is hope: some people learn that valuable lesson in prison. Gary Roe Santa Cruz, California...
...Japanese version of the Oscars. It?s set in Tokyo in the 1930s, and for a while made me nostalgic for a period I didn?t live through in a country I?ve never visited. But as 2hrs.13mins. of clichés piled up - the adorable orphan, the Santa Claus, the self-doubting artist, the tearful partings and tearier reunions - I decided I was better off where...
...basic ingredient of a spiritual life. No matter how often he invokes Scripture, Enron's founder, Ken Lay, will never learn that stealing is wrong until he finds some of that elusive characteristic. But there is hope: some people learn that valuable lesson in prison. Gary Roe Santa Cruz, California, U.S. China's New Bishops Re "Battle of the bishops" [May 15], on China's unauthorized ordination of two Roman Catholic bishops: It is more than ironic that while China pretends to burnish its international prestige through improved diplomatic relations, it is prepared to flout ancient church law to assert...