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...wandered around for a while before I found a seat at the 16th hole, a beautiful par-three, which, I later found out, had been the sight of some of the greatest putts in Masters' history. The year before, Jack Nicklaus had clinched his record sixth green jacket with a huge putt at the hole. In 1975, Nicklaus sunk an even bigger putt, a ridiculous 60-footer, to win the golf tournament...
...which he suddenly remembered he had talked briefly with Bailey. Then Dateline aired the second half of the first interview, with Cordoba now claiming that he indeed recalled--in a dream--that Fuhrman had called him a nigger. By that time, however, Cordoba's credibility was on a par with that of defense witnesses Rosa Lopez and Mary Anne Gerchas...
...already tolerates an unacceptable level of inequality, especially compared to our industrialized counterparts. Life expectancy and infant mortality rates in our ghettoes are on par with countries like Bangladesh. Reversing a half-century of narrowing inequality, Reagan-Bush policies pushed America towards even greater economic disparity. If the Republicans again succeed in limiting the government's already feeble attempts to empower the disadvantaged, the resulting misery and unrest may destroy American society. The American people cannot afford to let the government abandon its obligations...
Even as Castro fills the daily order for close to a thousand donuts, he still inspects each one to make sure it is up to par before hand-dipping it. Asked why he is so picky about which donuts are good enough, he responds, "When you are working for John Harvard, you have to toe the line...they don't want any mistakes." Well, I was more than happy to stand next to him and eat all the mistakes...
...Internet and such commercial operators as CompuServe. ``Sales of CD-ROM drives are doubling and tripling this year,'' says Deborah Monas, an analyst at London's Kagan World Media. The next 10 years are expected to bring a boom that will put much of the developed world on a par with the U.S. Monas predicts that as many as 42.5% of Europe's 153 million TV households will have PCs by 2003 and that 93% of those machines will be equipped with CD-ROM drives. ``The U.S. could reach 57% ((home-PC penetration)) by 2003,'' she says, ``and Britain could...