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...Crimson squad is strongest lower on the ladder, where Greg Kirsch, Kevin Shaw and frosh sub Bob Horn will play. A Crimson sweep here would pretty much sew up the match, but Midshipmen Brad Baylor, a very steady co-captain, and Jon Wall, a freshman who has won both his league matches, hope to prevent that...
...receive 'points,' which entitle them to a share of the profits from the village's communal projects. There is no television, but on several evenings John Haule, 30, the exuberant secretary of the Luhanga branch of the ruling party, shows films that teach villagers how to sew and farm or inspire them to be good socialists...
They often seem to dominate congressional hearings as they lean forward to supply legislators with shrewd questions that befuddle a committee opponent, or dazzling answers that sew up an argument. Their rising influence and expertise are among the reasons for the resurgent role of the U.S. Congress...
...particular Augean stable that 9to5 organizers have taken on, the muck lies deep. Change is slow in coming. The winner of 9to5's "Pettiest Office Procedures Contest" last fall was a man who had his secretary sew up a rip in the seat of his pants while he was in them. ("Men's egos are bigger today," he later explained to The Boston Globe. "Men want that little bit of security that a good secretary provides.") Second prize went to a store manager who asked his clerks to dress up as bumble bees to attract customers into his store...
Trying to make the presidency work these days is, as they say down South, like trying to sew buttons on a custard pie. Faith and forgiveness-and a politician's savvy-may yet see him through...