Word: standings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Skipping one last stone across the Rio Grande, I started inland across flat, marshy country where clumps of sable palms stand out like the befeathered scouts from a Zulu impi. Matamoros, in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas, and Brownsville, in Texas, are the first of a score or more twin towns strung along the frontier. The poverty that prowls much of the country's southern border like a hungry coyote sits back on its haunches and howls in Brownsville. "This is the poorest part of the U.S.," says Tony Zavaleta, a Brownsville sociologist. "We have whole suburbs without electricity, sewerage...
Heraclitus said a man cannot stand in the same river twice, the flow of things being what it is; 1960 and 1988 are not only different rivers, they run in different courses altogether. It is startling to remember now that Kennedy's Catholicism was the single greatest issue of the campaign and almost unhorsed him in a race he won by less than 120,000 votes. It is a trivia question to ask which two islands off the coast of mainland China received inordinate attention during the second and third television debates between Kennedy and Nixon (Quemoy and Matsu). Both...
...Sisyphus, I. I cling to my rock, you don't have to chain me. Stand back! I roll it up -- up, up. And . . . down we go. I knew that would happen. See, I'm on my feet again. See, I'm starting to roll it up again. Don't try to talk me out of it. Nothing, nothing could tear me away from this rock...
...challenge colorless Frank Lautenberg. A Rhodes scholar, Heisman trophy winner and once the youngest general in the Army, the squeaky- clean Dawkins seemed too good to be true. Apparently he is. Pilloried as a carpetbagger after moving from New York, Dawkins stoked the fire by declaring he could not stand the boredom of living in a small town, one of many missteps in an inept campaign. Lautenberg is now favored...
...three are pursuing a common path to their various aspirations. They are going to college, whether returning or enrolling for the first time. And although they may be older than some of their professors, that hardly makes them stand out in class. According to the College Board, more than 6 million students -- 45% of those enrolled in American college programs -- are 25 or older. The number of such students jumped 79% between 1969 and 1984. Within a decade, this new group of learners, 60% of whom are women and 70% of whom work full time, will make up a majority...