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Harvard professors authored five of the thirteen papers presented at the conference, addressing topics that ranged from the progress of public education to the future of the welfare state...
About a big thirteen-year-old delinquent: he writes, "I wish I had caught him so I could have given him a few punches," yet in "A Grand Old Hiccup," he savages conservative Republican men who in other Royko columns display a similar longing to use their fists. At base, like all good newspapermen, his philosophy is a non-partisan, compassionate populism...
...Thirteen years since his son stood on the sidelines as the sneaky bellboy, Walter Abbott will sit in the Stadium's stands this weekend us Steven Warren Abbott closes out a football career that began well before he dished out wet pigskins to frightening opponents...
...July 1983, Hunt led Helms in statewide public opinion polls by as much as 19 percentage points. Thirteen months later, a September Gallup Poll showed Helms leading Hunt by four points, a 23-point reversal. Today, with less than a week to go before the election, the race is a tossup, with Helms showing a slight, statistically insignificant lead. Even in Wilson, the governor's home county in eastern North Carolina, a local newpaper poll shows Helms leading Hunt, 46 to 42 percent. But the poll's 4.5 percent margin of error makes the race a dead heat...
...banquet will attempt to mirror the global food shortage by means of lottery-awarded meals, she said. Thirteen percent of the participants will car regular meals at tables, 27 percent will eat rice and vegetables on chairs away from tables and everyone else will eat small bowls of rice while seated on the floor. The committee has a separate banquet sign-up list in the dining halls...