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Thirty-five years later, Macmillan--still an usher, now stationed at the entrance to the press box--says he marvels at how The Game always draws people to the Stadium...
...birth of their nation, members of Congress devote ten days to the task. They also routinely stretch weekends to three or four or even five days, especially when a holiday comes up, and will be taking off 29 days in August. They needed a 23-day break to usher in the New Year, which followed a five-week recess to enjoy Thanksgiving and Christmas...
...some people fear the euphoria over his release will dissipate concern over what remains to be done. Talks between the A.N.C. and Pretoria are not expected to resume until mid-July. In the meantime, whatever hope there may have been in South Africa that Mandela's release would quickly usher in a new multiracial democracy has begun to fade. Now activists say it is important to draw attention to De Klerk's failure to take such steps as lifting the Internal Security Act, which permits thousands of South Africans to be imprisoned without trial. "We have to think about civil...
...money where their mouths are," says former San Francisco mayor Dianne Feinstein, winner of the state's Democratic gubernatorial primary. "I think it signals a new day." Even Arthur Laffer, the supply-side economist who was instrumental in enacting Proposition 13, declared the end of the revolution he helped usher in. "If the state where the tax revolt was invented rejects it," he glumly asks, "can Washington be far behind...
...original Renaissance man. Yet he has created what Da Vinci dreamed of and designed, but literally never got off the ground -- flying machines propelled solely by human muscle power. These and other unique MacCready airborne contraptions have made aviation history, and his innovative electric-car designs could help usher in a new era in ground transportation...