Word: extinctionism
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September 27 was the big day, the day the Sox clinched first place in their division, and the day that the top drawer in many a bureau was cemented shut. And that was some three and a half weeks ago. Come on, people, give us a break. Our nasal passages...
No Accident. The Africans were angered by a weekend speech that Moynihan gave at the AFL-CIO convention in San Francisco. There, he sharply denounced the bizarre anti-U.S. address that Amin had delivered to the General Assembly two days earlier, in which Big Daddy had also demanded "the...
Decked out in his field marshal's regalia, Uganda's President Idi Amin Dada last week made what must rank as one of the most bizarre debuts ever seen and heard in the United Nations General Assembly. In a prepared address, read by his U.N. delegate, Amin charged...
4 p.m.: Soccer and track introductory meetings. Track, a sparsely attended sport in high school, often withers to extinction at college now that mothers and girlfriends can't even attend the meets. Soccer draws a fairly large crowd for title matches, and the team is not so awesome that you...
The request was not surprising. Charlie Finley, 57, is the winningest and most notorious businessman in baseball. The national pastime has never been noted for imagination in the front office, and change of any sort has usually been equated with heresy, but Finley is an unabashed maverick. "I've never...