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...federal authorities the administration of education and other social programs; as a result, Indian governments now control about 40% of the Bureau of Indian Affairs' $1.9 billion budget. Self-government without development, however, has merely given many Indians the responsibility to administer their own poverty: they still have the shortest life-spans, highest infant-mortality rate, highest high school dropout rate and most extensive health problems of any U.S. ethnic group...
When junior Co-Captain Jennifer Garcia strides onto the court exuding command and self-assurance, it is easy to forget that she is the shortest member of the Harvard women's volleyball team...
...BILLY CRYSTAL HOW HE GOT STARTed, and he will say in the living room, where as the youngest and shortest of three boys, he was also the loudest. "After dinner, we would perform for 20 or so relatives impressions of Aunt Rose with the sagging upper arms and Uncle Max with the pants the size of New Jersey." He learned show-biz patter, pulling his chair alongside the old Magnavox TV and pretending to be the next guest on the Jack Paar show, peeking down Jayne Mansfield's dress and rolling his eyes, flacking his latest gig. "You know, Jack...
...publishers are on the cusp of a renaissance. Crowded with the author's favorite subjects ("visionaries, obsessives, imposters, fanatics, lost souls, the-end-is-near street preachers, old Gypsy kings and old Gypsy queens, and out-and-out freak-show freaks"), Up in the Old Hotel is the shortest 718-page volume of the year...
...back with red pencil on top thatsaid, "This is shit,'" says Wilson. "That is, youknow, the shortest from of literary criticism...