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...gain, and any company looking to be called "environmentally responsible" will have to try pretty hard. But with the party roles reversing almost instantly from their tax-cut-fight postures in the wake of the Jeffords news - Democrats promising to run their Senate magnanimously, and Republicans vowing to kick up a fuss - the biggest contribution the Green Mountain Man makes to the nation's capital this year may be to bring it to a halt...
Finally, in Harvard athletics, Neil Rose will quarterback the football team to its first Ivy League Championship in five seasons. Robbie Wright will kick the game-winning field goal with one second remaining against Yale. The Harvard victory will rejuvenate students’ faith in Harvard athletics, much to the delight of the new Athletic Director, Vince McMahon...
...School suddenly turn silent when Kara Pralle strides into the room. She commands a level of respect that even veteran teachers envy. One reason is that she is a high school senior and part of a group that teaches elementary students about the dangers of smoking. Today is National Kick Butts Day. "Who's going to kick butts and not smoke?" Kara asks the children. All 32 hands shoot up. After her 10-minute spiel, she doles out lollipops and temporary tattoos to help them remember her visit. But it also helps that Kara casually encounters most of the younger...
While shooting down a triple espresso--"I need the kick start"--and looking for all the world like James Joyce buffed up on steroids, Ellroy rips into American culture like a chainsaw in an abattoir with the volume turned up. Kennedy? "Jack got what he deserved. He got whacked before the sex got stale and everyone saw him for what he was." Clinton? "I hate him with a biblical passion. He is monstrous and shallow, a cold, manipulative man with a warm front, infantile with women...I would never have done Monica." American innocence? "This preposterous notion that Americans...
...meet players (but not star Lisa Leslie, who apparently had a prior engagement) and buy season tickets. The partnership will continue June 5, after the Sparks' first home game, when players will attend a cocktail party with Girl Bar members; the Sparks' June 14 game is designated "Gay Pride Kick-Off," also in connection with Girl Bar. The outreach is a far cry from 1999, when GWENN A. BALDWIN of the L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center paid about $16,000 to sponsor the Sparks but withdrew after the team's marketing staff objected to the words GAY AND LESBIAN FAMILIES...