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...court, McEnroe dropped out of the game six months ago, vowing to change his attitude -- and his game -- for the better. But when the reformed McEnroe made his long-awaited return to the pro circuit last week at the Volvo International tournament in Stratton Mountain, Vt., some of his old habits surfaced again...
Historian DAVID MCCULLOUGH at Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vt.: "Imagine a man who professes over and over his unending love for a woman but who knows nothing of where she was born or who her parents were or where she went to school or what her life had been until he came along, and, furthermore, he doesn't care to learn. What would you think of such a person? Yet we appear to have a never-ending supply of patriots who know nothing of the history of the country, nor are they interested. We have not had a President with...
...five-eighths bovine, according to standards set by the American Beefalo World Registry. Beefalo averages 80% less fat and 55% fewer calories than comparable cuts of ordinary beef. Two samples from animals that were fed differently were tested, with somewhat different results. Beefalo from Healey's Market in Manchester, Vt., was slightly richer, more flavorful and moister than comparable cuts from Chenango Beefalo in Greene, N.Y. Although neither example of beefalo matched Brae, both were certainly adequate. Steaks cooked rare were the most successful cuts, even though they were paler in color, milder in flavor and a bit tougher than...
...Solzhenitsyn. In Palm Beach, Fla., last week, Ignat Solzhenitsyn, 13, played in his most formal concert yet, performing Beethoven's Second Piano Concerto with the Soviet Emigre Orchestra. Only 18 months old when his father was exiled, the boy has thrived at his family's isolated home in Cavendish, Vt., where he began playing at age six and still practices between schoolwork for three hours a day. How does his father react to his concert work? "He's very supportive," says the teenager in a clipped accent that by now seems to owe as much to New England...
...said the other signers are Sen. Paul Simon (D-III.), Sen. Howard Metzenbaum (D-Ohio) and Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), Biden, who is the ranking Democrat on the committee, initiated the letter to Meese, Smith said...