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...because of me." There was Jimmy near the top of his high school class; Billy, by his own account, next to the bottom. Jimmy the Navy officer; Billy the Marine sergeant. Jimmy the Governor; Billy the gas station owner. Jimmy the straitlaced, born-again Baptist; Billy the laid-back, foul-mouthed redneck. Jimmy the President; Billy the family embarrassment...
...anyone needs to reach for the ancients, or for theories, to connect the Olympics and politics. A casual scanning of events in the modern Games shows that for every example of exchanged T shirts and kisses among competing nations there are a dozen instances of international cheating, needling and foul play, all laced with as much nationalism as competitive nastiness. In 1908, British officials dragged the Italian marathoner Dorando Pietri over the finish line in an attempt to withhold victory from the American Johnny Hayes. The water polo match between the Soviet Union and Hungary in 1956 ended with...
Democrats immediately moved to turn the episode into an issue. Said Democratic National Chairman John White: "It was a massive foul-up, and it's going to hurt him deeply. It raises all kinds of questions about Reagan as a decision maker." But some more neutral political experts thought the contretemps would quickly fade. Said Jonathan Moore, director of Harvard's Institute of Politics: "I don't believe that it will make any difference come November. It is not an issue that will last...
...months at Brigham Young, she hitched northeast to Minnesota and got a job as a short-order cook in a joint where she could sing when business was slow. She dyed her sandy hair black, put on some weight and tried to sing like Joan Baez. "I sang foul, I looked foul," she says. Her folks found her and brought her home...
...other sports. Americans, and the kind of Britishers who attend soccer matches realize that when men congregate in short pants it is to compete, and, that competition involves a certain diminution of one's gentility. All basketball players--all basketball players--complain when they think an unjustified foul has been called, and many complain on principle, every time they hear a whistle. The thought of Mendy Rudolph bellowing, "Mr. Dawkins will resume play." The idea of the Garden scoreboard operator announcing to the assembled throng, "Mr. Tiny Archibald has been issued a public warning." The next time Don Zimmer charges...