Word: madison
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...would have probably played golf for the rest of my life, too. But then came the day my uncle took me to see the Rangers at Madison Square Garden. Don Maloney scored three goals. Two days later, I bought a hockey stick, wrote Maloney's name on it and went to my neighborhood playground for an afternoon...
Washington was built on a river of "ardent spirits," a nice term used long ago for the hard stuff. Laborers on public buildings got larger whiskey rations the higher up they worked, a dubious formula. But the buildings did get finished. Dolley Madison brought this "saloon culture" into the White House, getting the political leaders out of the bars and into more graceful surroundings. The drinks came on silver trays. James Madison cut some good deals...
While the parliamentary system Fulbright recommends has certain advantages, it also has many problems. If Congress were to elect the president/prime minister (as, Fulbright notes, James Madison suggested in the first draft of the Constitution), there would be none of the checks and balances that keep our system free from tyranny. A parliamentary system also might become a tool to keep the power in the hands of a small, self-perpetuating body removed from the people...
1.Princeton 564 2. Harvard 531.5 3. Penn State 281.5 4. Pittsburgh 238 5. Brown 224 6. Navy 216 7. Army 185 8. LaSalle 163 9. Yale 160 10. Bucknell 118 11. Columbia 114 12. Syracuse 110 13. Cornell 62 14. James Madison 61 15. Pennsylvania...
...Madison Avenue's most enduring -- if not hardest-working -- characters: the Maytag repairman. Billed as "the loneliest guy in the world" because the company's products supposedly never break down, he has been portrayed by actor Jesse White since the Iowa-based appliance maker launched the campaign 21 years ago. But next month, at 70, White will hang up his never used tool belt. He will be replaced by actor Gordon Jump, 56, who portrayed radio-station manager Arthur Carlson in the TV series WKRP in Cincinnati. But White is not all washed up. Like many corporate superstars before...