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Act Four: Fall goeth before Pride. On first down Champi drops back and scrambles in search of a receiver until Yale defensive end Jim Gallagher spills him at the eight for a two-yard loss. Champi's fruitless search takes 11 seconds. 0:03. It translates to one play.
Sure, a $15 billion tax cut for individuals sounds awesome. However, when it translates into $5 a week for my family and this is more than offset by the increase in Social Security taxes, I am hardly pleasantly surprised. And the politicians wonder about the current mood of the people...
THAT IS the only mention of Panama, of Canal Zone and right-wing Southern paranoia fame, in these 175 pages, but it is the crux of the book. Chet suffers from memory loss; Catherine hires a private detective to inform him of what he did during the day so that...
Suppose Dean Allison were to accept all 30 calls and talk to each person for five minutes. 250 minutes translates into nearly four hours of the working day, and that apart from another 10 hours of daily meetings, hours spent teaching, and perhaps even time to read the mail and...
Simmons, who co-founded Diners' Club and published Weight Watchers Magazine before he launched National Lampoon, has three movies to go on his four-film-minimum contract with Universal Pictures. The bankroller and distributor of Animal House, Universal recouped its initial in vestment a few weeks after the film...