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...Powers recognized a staunch and courageous leader when he saw one, and it was not long before Berry was a lieutenant on the rise within the BLOHARDS brigade. He narrated the slide shows at BLOHARDS gatherings and introduced honored guests, who came to bolster the troops. Johnny Pesky met with the BLOHARDS twice, and DiMaggio, Dom, addressed a gathering at the New England Room. Cleveland Amory and Peter Golenbock debated the relative merits of the Sox and Yanks at a BLOHARDS-sponsored forum. Managers talked strategy...
...ailing Rehnquist should also step down soon, it would embroil the President in a complicated set of choices. Would he push for two staunch conservatives? Or offer one hard-liner and one more moderate nominee as an inducement to Democrats to go easy on his more conservative pick? For Bush's conservative base, there is only one way to go. The court has long remained the branch that has thwarted conservatives' key goals, especially an abortion ban. Recent 5-4 decisions affirming the right of a locality to seize private property or forbidding the display of the Ten Commandments...
...wrote in Lazy B, a 2002 memoir that she co-authored with Alan, "We were saved again--saved from the ever present threat of drought, of starving cattle, of anxious creditors. We would survive a while longer." Self-reliance was also a political value: her father Harry was a staunch opponent of Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal. And it was a reason to respect knowledge: O'Connor's mother Ada Mae, a college graduate, would read to her from the New Yorker and the Wall Street Journal, and when Sandra was 5 years old she went to El Paso...
Nevertheless, most pupils and their parents would not trade the experience for anything. A particularly staunch supporter is Montana's Governor Ted Schwinden, himself a one-room alumnus. "I have nothing but good memories of it," he says. Another is Salund's Herbranson, who sounds like anything but today's unappreciated, burned-out teacher, despite a 1983 salary of $6,300, which the National Education Association certified as the nation's lowest (her wages have now soared to $6,800). "The feeling of being needed," she says, "that's something worthwhile. Many of my former students are married...
...Washington Post and the New York Times in the 1950s, he became a speech writer for 1960 Presidential Candidate John Kennedy and in 1963 launched his thrice-weekly column. The globe-trotting, indefatigable Kraft wrote with erudite assurance, whether on the Middle East or Middle America. Once a staunch liberal who made Richard Nixon's enemies list, Kraft later took a more conservative tack, never losing his disdain for sloppy thinking or pat reasoning...