Word: fan
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Never a fan of unattributed quotes in damaging stories, the White House staff chief has lately begun leak-hunting expeditions to identify unnamed sources in articles that make Bush look good. The vigilance is not working well: aides privately report that Sununu often fingers the wrong person...
Watching Ryan's smooth, ferocious delivery, a fan sees the sport at its elemental best. For baseball is a game of catch. A pitcher throws the ball, and the batter watches. Half the time, according to a study in The Stats Baseball Scoreboard, he does not even swing. On more than 60% of all pitches, his bat does not touch the ball. The result is a lot more whiffs now than in the old days. Last year batters earned 3% more bases on balls than in 1930, but struck out 75% more often. Flash, not finesse, is the hallmark...
...choice to serve on Mikhail Gorbachev's new advisory presidential council. Rasputin's writings and speeches are often chauvinistically Russian and, according to some, anti-Semitic. But officials in Moscow think they have discovered the reason for Rasputin's elevated post. Raisa Gorbachev is a big fan of his books. A question now making the Kremlin rounds: Does every Czarina need her Rasputin...
...watertight case. In fact, the imaginary charges against Scott Frederic Turow, 41, may not go far enough. They ignore, for example, the $20 million film version of Presumed Innocent, directed by Alan Pakula and starring Harrison Ford, which will be released this summer and will probably lure every Turow fan who is not still hiding from job and loved ones while reading The Burden of Proof...
However, Harvard claims that the measure of its athletic programs is not success and failure, but participation and equal opportunity for participation. And women's athletics, with less funding, fan support of alumni support, still comes in second under these criteria...