Word: winner
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Kingston draws similarities between Harvard's 1984 NCAA winner and this year's edition. "The team gets along as a group, just as in 1984. We are also learning to take the game seriously," Kingston says...
...heavily regulated thrift industry, it helps for executives to know their way around Washington. On that score, Honolulu Federal Savings & Loan should be a winner. Its new owner is H.F. Holdings, an investment firm founded by William Simon, 58, who was Treasury Secretary under Presidents Nixon and Ford. Simon has named another old Washington hand, Preston Martin, as chairman of H.F. Holdings. Martin, 62, served as vice chairman of the Federal Reserve Board from March 1982 until March of this year...
Hard to see why. The film is no winner but no atrocity either. We are in Shanghai, 1938. Warlords and China dolls are bumping into faded carbon copies of Sydney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre. That must make Penn the Bogart figure -- a hustler and self-styled "Glow-in-the-Dark-Tie King" who helps a prim but spunky missionary (yep, Madonna) find 1,000 lbs. of opium to help soothe the wounds of Chinese soldiers. "Guns cause pain," she says fervently. "Opium eases pain...
Kingston draws similarities between Harvard's 1984 NCAA winner and this year's edition. "The team gets along as a group, just as in 1984. We are also learning to take the game seriously," Kingston says...
...smooth-talking, politically connected shoo-in. This time, though, both candidates were black and the minority vote was white. The well-connected loser in the Democratic primary runoff in Atlanta's Fifth Congressional District was State Senator Julian Bond, a founder of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. The winner: former City Councilman John Lewis, onetime S.N.C.C. chairman, who outhustled his former ally to beat him 52% to 48% after finishing a distant second in last month's primary...