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...forced to spend two weeks with an Ohio family now seems tedious and self-indulgent. There's satiric potential in a middle-American family's encounter with celebrity boorishness, but we get too little feeling for the family and way too much for the hammy show-biz types who troop on and off the stage. For almost three hours...
...recent Thursday morning, a troop of shorts-clad men were jogging around the track at Indiana University's campus in Indianapolis. Standing in uniform on the sidelines, police officer Jim Ritter barked some unusual words of encouragement at one of the stragglers. "Remember, $50,000 a year!" he shouted, clapping his hands. "That's the motivation. Keep it going...
...Lazio has ripped both Clintons over its price 4. According to the Supreme Court, the Boy Scouts can bar them from being troop leaders 8. The Gift of the Magi gift 11. Singer DiFranco 12. Orsk's river 13. "Later!" 14. The run-up to its election was tainted by violence 16. Bear up? 17. He's home at last 18. Applies with a Q-tip 20. U.S. Middle East mediator 23. Online brokerage firm that just went decimal 26. Nautilus sites 29. Stephen King beast 31. Day-__ 32. Prosecutors must tell his lawyer which nations they believe he tried...
...Well, on June 29, Bryant Gumbel, a host of CBS-TV's "The Early Show," did a truculent interview with Robert Knight of the Family Research Council. They were discussing the Supreme Court's decision upholding the Boy Scouts' ban on gay troop leaders. Knight supported the court's decision because keeping gay men out of scoutmaster posts comported with Knight's religious views. Gumbel took the opposite view, and applied his surly, uninteresting mind to cuffing Knight about...
...occupied by Redwood Elementary School. A mannequin in the school's red-and-blue uniform presides over a spread of student-made dioramas and papier-mache, painstakingly displayed by Redwood parents in an all-day decorating marathon. On a recent Saturday, the school's choir serenaded shoppers while a troop of parent volunteers was on hand with brochures extolling the virtues of a Redwood education--and urging shoppers to sign up their kids. "I can already see the day when parents of newborns will call me up and say they want to register their kids at Redwood," says principal Butch...