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Revelations that Rose would gamble on any game, in any sport, at any time -- and seven volumes of evidence, including a stack of betting slips in his handwriting -- did not seem to shame him. Little ever has. Not a 1979 paternity suit that he did not contest, the messy unraveling of his marriage in 1978 (which did not interfere with his 44-game hitting streak), or striking an umpire in the chest, for which he received a 30-day suspension in 1988. Criticism in the press about the friends in thick gold chains and diamond pinky rings who placed wagers...
...does my friend have a stack of books 10-feet high in his office? Yes, these books are for his T-thing. And he's actually read some of them. In fact, we couldn't go out one Saturday night until he had finished another chapter on the ratification of the Panama Canal Treaty. And he spent Friday afternoon--Friday--in a professor's office, discussing the merits of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee...
...thousands of people gathered for the July 4th Boston Pops concert along the Charles River. In Minneapolis a few pro- choice protesters burning a flag were rushed by three waiters from a nearby topless bar. In Atlanta about 450 pro-choice activists carried to the state capitol a stack of coat hangers, a grisly symbol of the back-street butchery they predict if abortion is outlawed...
...Because it is Harvard and because it has agreat many more resources than other institutions,it has a major opportunity to be a greatdepartment," says McKay, "but it does not stack upright now because it does not have the faculty...
...side, Havel animated and excited, Dubcek reserved and stiff. "I was expecting every miracle today except that I would meet you," said the playwright. The aging politician recalled one of Havel's plays, though none have been performed in Czechoslovakia since 1968. Havel leaped up and gathered a stack of foreign editions that had been smuggled into the country. "I will sign them for you in green ink because green is the color of hope, and I am an optimist." Answered Dubcek: "I was always an optimist. I remain an optimist; I have never lost my spirit...