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Ever since its conception, the Big Dig has been an easy target for criticism and jokes. The prodigal son of Massachusetts and Boston politics, the Big Dig has been continually plagued by mismanagement and ever-increasing costs. The first official estimate placed the project's price tag at $2.5 billion; today, the total costs are estimated at $8 billion, making it the largest publicly funded project in the United States today. In 1987, then-President Ronald W. Reagan cited the project as an example of pork-barrel spending and vetoed federal funding for it--but the veto was overridden thanks...
Sophomore Jenny Franzese doubled to lead off the first, followed by a walk to senior Danielle Feinberg. Senior co-captain Amy Reinhard then hit a grounder to third, but the swift Franzese avoided the tag to load the bases for Kreuder. Kreuder's double--the seventh consecutive time she had reached base safely--plated...
...network has indulged more aggressively in this kind of stunt than Fox. As part of a complex $1 million package deal last fall that included a viewer contest, Fox had a character on its Party of Five ask, "Got milk?"--the tag line for the multimillion-dollar America's Dairy Farmers' ad campaign. In a similar marketing scheme, Dr. Dre spouted AT&T's "Know the code" on New York Undercover. The upcoming Mother's Day episode of Living Single will top that for MCI when a character calls mom by dialing 1-800-COLLECT. "Whatever...
DIED. MINNIE PEARL, 83, comedian; in Nashville, Tennessee. Offstage she was Sarah Ophelia Colley Cannon, the elegant, sophisticated neighbor of Governors. But onstage she was the country cutup whose raucous "Howww-dee!," price-tag-bedecked hat ($1.98) and 50-year search for a "feller" made her an institution at the Grand Ole Opry, where she debuted in 1940. For 20 years, she displayed her fearlessly corny humor...
...Dole can't afford to fight it out in both places. Under the law, he is prohibited from raising more money for the primaries, but his delegate slates are not. In each of New York's congressional districts, Dole delegates can launch their own miniature campaigns, buying ads with tag lines like "Paid for by John Smith, a delegate pledged to Bob Dole." Many district delegates are themselves officeholders, such as members of Congress, which means they are allowed to dip into their own campaign funds to pay for buttons, bumper stickers, signs and get-out-the-vote efforts...