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...defending-champion heavies (6:25.3) dropped a close contest to Brown (6:23.2), but edged out Ivyrival Yale (6:25.4) by one-tenth of a second to nab the silver medals...
Eric grew up in Los Angeles' posh Brentwood section, and by tenth grade was an honor student, a varsity baseball player and an accomplished cellist. He was also becoming a crack addict. With friends who were similarly hooked, Eric would hop into the white Volkswagen camper his dad had bought him and drive into the seedy Venice Beach area. There he would purchase rocks from Los Angeles gang members. Sometimes he made three trips...
...exam in use is a pared-down version of the California Achievement Tests. Children are asked to identify shapes, numbers and objects and solve rudimentary math problems ("Sam is the tenth person in line. How many people are in front of him?"). "It was easy," bragged Jesse Palmer, 6, after taking the exam last week at Tybee Elementary School, near Savannah. "I got every one right." Jo Buckley reported that her daughter Candace "thought of it as a game...
...House has not yet garnered the support it needs from Illinois Democrat Dan Rostenkowski, who chairs the Ways and Means Committee. Rostenkowski is afraid that a taxpayers' rights bill would cost the Government as much as $200 million a year -- although that amounts to little more than one-tenth of 1% of the annual deficit. Pryor hopes to convince Rostenkowski that just the opposite will happen. Says the Senator: "When people respect their tax system, revenues...
...here's how things stood as the Red Sox headed off the field, two runs down: Jim Rice was due up fifth in the bottom of the tenth. That projected to two outs, two runners on and Rice at bat with the game on the line...