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...winner. It sent a scrapbook slightly larger than a full newspaper page (the board's expressed size limit), complete with a movie-poster-style cover. Inside, a five-page letter sang the praises of the Republic series on mismanagement in the Bureau of Indian Affairs and a thick stack of documents attested to the story's impact. "Next year I'm automatically going to vote against any entry that weighs more than I do," joked one weary reader. Juror Alan Moyer admits that some cover letters are "obviously trying to influence the jurors." He should know. It was Moyer...
...from sand, stone and mortar: They were built to ward off time. Each individual block, though carved to protect a pharoah, was a move by man to withstand wind, water, night and other men. Each book we print adds to the monolith of similar blocks we preserve, that we stack in piles, climb on top of, burn out of fear...
...campaign was finished. This year Mike Dukakis finishes third, and he's on his way to the White House." For Bruce Babbitt and Gary Hart, the Iowa returns meant seats in the balcony at the Democratic Convention. Garnering just 6%, Babbitt left Iowa with a sad smile and a stack of glowing press clippings. Hart registered nary a beat; there were giggles in one north Des Moines precinct when no one stood up to support...
Other conventions: an anchorman is expected to sit behind a desk and to hold in his hands a stack of papers, even though he is actually reading from a TelePrompTer beside the camera. NBC's Willard Scott does not dispense the weather until he has showed snapshots of 100-year-old people and wished them a happy birthday. If Scott omits the birthdays, the net of expectation thrums a little oddly...
...tough love is your thing, you can find a lot to love about Joe Clark. Bullhorn cradled in one arm, a stack of books and papers resting in the other, the 48-year-old principal of Eastside High in down-at-the-heels Paterson, N.J. (pop. 140,000), charms and bullies his way through the bustling corridors of his ordered domain like an old-time ward boss, relishing every step. He pinches girls on their cheeks, slaps high fives with both boys and girls, greeting most by name...