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...decision on the White House steps to huzzahs from the farmers. A couple of hours later the beleaguered Senate Majority Leader, Robert Dole, rose in fury on the Hill and rocketed his displeasure downtown. So, accused Dole, the hold-the-line troops in the Senate were supposed to shoulder the bad news while the boys in the White House handed out the goodies. Regan was chastened. He should have run through his checklist and brought Dole in on the act to protect the President...
...second line has continued to generate excellent offensive chances and to forecheck well. Right wing Tim Barakett reinjured his shoulder last weekend and has been unable to practice this week, but he will be ready to go when the horn sounds Friday night at the Garden...
...cold shoulder given to AIDS research funding is especially offensive given the fatal nature of the disease. When citizens are dying, the nation must expend whatever resources are necessary to ensure their preservation, regardless of personal dispositions. Morally speaking, national defense and public health have the same basis. It is appalling that the question of "whether we should save or let die" should arise in the first place, whereas inquiry into the legitimate needs of the Defense Department is comparatively nonexistent...
...Thousands of raving, stumbling drunks, getting angrier and angrier they lose more an more money. By midafternoon they'll be gazzling mint with both hands and vomiting on each other between races. The whole place will be jammed with bodies, shoulder shoulder. It's hard to move around. The aisles will be stick with vomit, people falling down and grabbing at your legs to keep from getting stomped. Drunks passing on themselves in the betting lines. Dropping handfuls of money and fighting to stoop over and pick it up. Hunter S. Thompson. "The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent and Depraved...
...insulating material are scattered everywhere. Earlier, crews of olive-clad Laotian soldiers and Americans in T shirts and grimy Levi's had cut a working area roughly the size of a baseball diamond, first by clearing the dense undergrowth and then by dropping to their hands and knees in shoulder-to-shoulder skirmish lines for a preliminary search of the area. Among the items unearthed were bits of human bones, a scattering of teeth and what the crews will describe only as "some personal effects." For the untrained, the bone fragments would be hard to recognize, often looking like nothing...