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REPUBLICAN PARTY CHAIRMAN RICH BOND LOVES TO FLY, AND it shows. Bond was the only member of the G.O.P. high command to ride first class on the 8:15 a.m. TWA flight from St. Louis to Washington after the first presidential debate. Seems he took a lot of heat for it from the bigwigs back in coach class, including White House chief of staff James Baker, presidential pollster and official campaign chairman Robert Teeter and Budget Director Dick Darman. "I've visited 35 states since February," Bond says, "and I've accumulated several hundred thousand frequent-flyer miles, which...
...THOSE GORgeous trout in the film A River Runs Through It is a plaster fish that runs on an underwater track and leaps on command. Most important: it deflects possible criticism from animal-rights groups unhappy about Hollywood's hurting real trout, which were anesthetized and returned to the water once their scenes were shot...
...Notes: Coach Buddy Teevens may be gone from Dartmouth, but that doesn't mean his winning ways have left Hanover, N.H. In fact, with John Lyons in command, Dartmouth picked up its first victory over Holy Cross since 1977--a 48-0 thrashing to top that...One reason for the Big Green's continued dominance is junior quarterback Jay Fiedler, currently the seventh best signal-caller in Division I-AA. Fiedler got his third Ivy Offensive Player of the Week nod for his 23-for-34, 307-yard air-fest against the Crusaders...Linebacker extraordiaire Chris Zingo was voted Defensive...
...Notes: Coach Buddy Teevens may be gone from Dartmouth, but that doesn't mean his winning ways have left Hanover, N.H. In fact, with John Lyons in command, Dartmouth picked up its first victory over Holy Cross since 1977--a 48-0 thrashing to top that...One reason for the Big Green's continued dominance is junior quarterback Jay Fiedler, currently the seventh best signal-caller in Division I-AA. Fiedler got his third Ivy Offensive Player of the Week nod for his 23-for-34, 307-yard air-fest against the Crusaders...Linebacker extraordiaire Chris Zingo was voted Defensive...
...Bruce Springsteen in 57 Channels (And Nothing On). In his book Life After Television, George Gilder predicts that the merging of TV and computers will bring the demise of network mediocrity. "Big events -- the Super Bowl or the election debates or the most compelling mass programs -- will still command their audiences," he writes. "But all the media junk food and filler will tend to disappear. People will order what they want rather than settling for what is there...