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Press Secretary Ron Nessen's face shone brightly the day he took over the White House briefings and announced, "I'm a Ron, but not a Ziegler." But after 2% strenuous months and an exhausting presidential jaunt to Asia, an exasperated Nessen was displaying Ziegler-like ways, including rare press conferences, sour exchanges with reporters and bombastic language inflating the achievements of his boss. The White House press was beginning to wonder out loud, "How long can Nessen last?" Then, last week, Nessen admitted his errors and promised to improve...
...stars shone bright above the sun, The air was cold and hoar...
...also inherited her brains, energy and abiding interest in good works. At Yale (class of '09) and Oxford, he shone as a scholar, debater, idealist. In 1913 Moses started work for New York's reform movement. Within six years he had worked out an ambitious plan to reorder the chaos of overlapping state administration-essentially by cutting 187 agencies down into 16 workable new departments. Governor Al Smith pushed it through the Albany legislature...
...seldom seen ray of sunshine shone in the second period as sophomore Kevin McCall, the team's top scorer, stole the ball from the Brown defense at midfield and pumped it past their unintimidated goalie for the third goal...
...braking every 20 yards or so, and had stopped on the road that ran just outside Morochata. I put my knapsack on my back and was pointed toward the restaurant where I was to meet my contact. There, seated at a table in an interior patio where the sun shone strongly, sat Padre Ray Herman...