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...Clarion-Ledger gave the eight-part education series an investment impressive even by the standards of bigger papers: Reporters Fred Anklam Jr., 28, and Nancy Weaver, 29, crisscrossed the state for four months, arriving unannounced in 40 of the 153 local school districts. Says Anklam: "We tried to catch people unawares." In 51 news stories and 27 editorials, timed to influence a December special session of the legislature, the Clarion-Ledger contended: "Mississippi public schools aren't making the grade." Among the ills cited: per-pupil funding of only $1,965 for 1981-82, vs. a national average...
This spring the mood is said to be greatly improved in the Baltimore clubhouse: retired Manager Earl Weaver has given up rhubarbs for tomatoes. Owner Edward Bennett Williams calls the withdrawal process "de-Weaverization," a happier state under congenial Joe Altobelli, though the results are what will tell. "Finally," Pitcher Jim Palmer says, "we're going to find out if we won despite Earl or because of him." The Yankees' clubhouse is filled, once again, with strangers, Steve Kemp, Don Baylor, a few other expensive new hands, prompting Third Baseman Graig Nettles to remark: "Every year, staying here...
...plot thickens from here--or rather, it becomes mush Guy falls for a beautiful attache at the British Embassy after a whirlwind, cardboard romance. As the hottest ticket in Jakarta's diplomatic community. Sigourney Weaver again makes heads turn But like the other subplots that spring up every five minutes, their relationship is almost irrelevant to the film's most important point the struggle by Hamilton and Kwan to work out for themselves how to deal with the frighteningly immense human problems they must confront every...
...with Whiffenpoof harmonies; in the white man's clubs, journalists and diplomats slug back their Scotch and try to forget that the good imperial days have vanished into Third World arrogance. Among the Caucasians are Guy Hamilton (Mel Gibson), one of the Australian correspondents, and Jill Bryant (Sigourney Weaver), a glamorous mystery woman in the employ of the British embassy. Helping them fall in love, and more than a little in love with them both, is Billy Kwan (Linda Hunt), a dwarfish man who works as a photographer and functions as an all-knowing tipster. Nothing is simple here...
Michael Dokes knocked down Mike Weaver and then stopped him with a barrage of head punches in the first round last night to win the World Boxing Association heavyweight Championship...