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Then I wrote this column that said Harvard was going to much on the Columbia Lions like so many fried shrimp on the first leg of an Ivy title march, or else I'd eat my byline. Well, you can see by the looks of things at the top of this piece that it's not just turkey tetrazzini I've been snacking on these days...
Recently, Plaquemines has had a new minority to deal with. An old wooden shrimp boat, billowing black smoke, pulls into an isolated bayou near the mouth of the river. Laughingly pushing his cousin aside, Phuoc Nguyen, 11, grabs the tie line and loops two half hitches around a stake on the bank. Phuoc, who has picked up English in the three years he has been in the U.S., translates for his uncle as a white-haired mechanic explains the problem with the carburetor. "How much we owe you?" asks the boy. The mechanic shakes his head, refusing payment. Like many...
...small step toward increasing its imports, Japan has recently lowered tariffs on some 124 items, worth about $2 billion. But about a third of the reduction was on shrimp, which the U.S. does not ship to Japan. Tariff cuts on other items were also slight; the duty on computers was dropped from 13.5% to 10.5%, on color film from 16% to 11% and on tires from...
JIMMY BUFFETT'S GONE for the good life, sailing the islands, boiled shrimp and cold beer, married to Jane Slagsvol whom he's loved for five years, with Tom McGuane for a brother-in-law and what all. Son of a Son will do no damage to his credit rating--it's a sure AM smash, and you're gonna hear it wafting from the dorm windows come warm weather...
...Sergeant Robert Brack, 29, edged his maroon sedan through the underbrush, his headlights picked out two giant vans. Suddenly there was a roar of boat engines and rifle fire. Pinned down, Brack held off the attackers until help came. Two shrimp boats packed with pot ran aground in the confusion. Surrounded in the thicket, a gang of eleven men was captured, along with $14 million in grass...