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Their December campaign hinged on student life concerns, such as getting cable TV for students. They turned the tide of the council, creating a shift from the ideological crusades of Rawlins and her predecessors...
...DeMatha Catholic High School, a school near Washington D.C. that is legendary for its hoops history. A high school All-American, Brown decided to attend Harvard, shunning full-ride scholarships at college juggernauts such as the University of North Carolina and UCLA, which was riding high on a tide of nine NCAA championships in 10 years under the legendary coach John Wooden...
...required to pour. Since Icame from a background where tea was dispensedeither from a tea pot or a tea kettle, I was notprepared for the samovar used at formal teas. Whenmy turn came to pour, I was horrified to discoverthat moving the lever right or left failed to stemthe tide of tea. Just as my first poured cup wasabout to rise over the top, a dean rushed over andpushed the lever to the shut-off position in themiddle. This information has subsequently been ofno use to me whatsoever...
...know the tide has turned against video gambling when Doug Jennings announces it's time to throw it out of his state. The South Carolina legislator, a lawyer and popular fourth-term Democrat, had backed the video-machine operators ever since he took office in 1991; after all, they helped keep many small businesses alive in his rural, job-starved district skirting the North Carolina border. But this year Jennings listened to another part of his constituency, spouses and children of addicted gamblers who begged him to back a bill banning the machines...
...could walk the sunny side of the street as well as the boulevard of broken dreams, snap brim tilted off the right side of his head, raincoat slung over his shoulder like an open bandolier. The proud champion of classic American pop fought a pitched battle against the engulfing tide of rock in the '60s. Became music's elder statesman in the '70s. Then the resurgent master of the '80s. And--at last, at the end of his days--the icon who could be forgiven anything for a song...