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...Cypress bingo parlor is a corrugated-tin warehouse the size of an airplane hangar. It is surrounded by ramshackle houses and lots of old cars rusting on cinder blocks and stray dogs with mange and a few horses and small herds of cattle grazing in the swampy heart of South Florida that is the Big Cypress Seminole Indian Reservation. It seats 5,600 players and is the largest bingo parlor in the world. Every Saturday and Sunday morning, players are flown in from foreign countries, bused in from Canada and 38 states, bused in from every city in Florida...
YESTERDAY in English, I sat in the back row and noticed that my classmates' clothes managed to touch on every color in the rainbow. Their apparel even covered a bunch of colors that usually get left out of rainbows. My eyes, when they happened to stray from the podium, caught flashes of robin's-egg-blues and dark browns, pinks and greens and yellows and ragg wool sweaters. Brights and darks and neons and dulls, splattered on everything from tank tops to overcoats...
...chief target for USA Today is viewers who have already heard or seen the day's top news and want an extra helping of follow-up stories and features. A presentation videotape indicates that the show will match the newspaper's fondness for personalities, opinion polls and stray factoids (24% of all married people say they have a secret that would destroy their marriage). The show will have its own staff but will draw on the newspaper for ideas and preview some of the paper's next-day stories...
...great coach been hit once too often by a stray puck...
...sound off for this week's cover story on school discipline, Clark invited her to accompany him on his rounds. Off they went at breakneck speed, he with his infamous bullhorn in hand, she with her notebook. Clark strode swiftly along the corridors, swooping down to pick up stray scraps of paper and barking orders at his staff. When Clark finally sat down to talk, he remained hyperactive, bouncing out of his seat to make heartfelt points. After a dozen interviews with other educators in New Jersey, Simpson came away exhausted. "I'm not sure whether Joe Clark...