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...ambiguous situation when you're teaching SATS. Are you just preparing to raise the kids score or are you somehow trying to make up for the education that they're not getting?" Lang says...
...Somehow word of those offensive floats failed to make the mainstream. This year, the firefighters decided at the last minute to call their float, a decorated pickup truck, "Black to the Future, Broad Channel, 2098." It was intended, they said, to make the point that nearly all-white Broad Channel will, in the next hundred years, become integrated. To make that "point," such as it is, they wore Afro wigs and blackface, dribbled basketballs and threw pieces of watermelon at the crowd...
...gray suit, a gray shirt and his trademark bow tie (also gray, though with a few zany paisley figures). "Welcome to forum alfresco," he quips in a typical bit of Ivy League drollery. No one laughs. But Williams is being himself, and the crowd seems to appreciate it. Somehow, in fact, this Yale-talking geek has inspired a city desperate for inspiration...
...agencies tells this story: In February 1996 he got an unexpected summons to the office of a new and younger boss. On his way in he nodded to a woman he did not know; he thought he was about to be given a new account with which she was somehow connected. But in a five-minute interview, the boss told the executive, who was then 47, that he was being fired for "lack of performance" (though he claims he had received only stellar performance reviews during his 12 years with the firm) and that he had one day to clean...
...reading the letter from Canadian Peter T. Lochtie commenting that baseball was invented, watched and played by morons [LETTERS, Aug. 17], I had to respond. Mr. Lochtie, would you prefer for us to watch the "sport" of curling? Or maybe hockey--where all but the few truly terrible teams somehow make the playoffs? Granted the sport of baseball has changed over the years, and not always for the better, but to condemn it across the board is ridiculous. Please, sir, leave my national pastime to me, and I'll leave yours to you. MITCHEL W. GILREATH Lewiston...