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Local youngsters still flocked to the site Sunday, expecting the slide to be operational. While most expressed disappointment at the melting pile of ice, four-year-old Jonathon Sears took a more philosophical approach...
...White House in 1981, he found that Jimmy Carter had left the cupboard quite bare, and that one of his first acts would have to be to increase the national debt past $1 trillion. What an outrage, especially to a cost-conscious conservative! A trillion dollars--why, if you piled up that many $1,000 bills, Reagan told Congress, you would have a pile 67 miles high! "A monument to the policies of the past," said the new President, "which as of today are reversed." But since Reagan was also determined to increase military spending and to cut taxes...
While President Reagan was having a high old time these past few months, boldly collaring international hijackers and jousting at the summit with Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev, Congress was letting its work pile up. Now the unfinished business of Capitol Hill awaits Reagan like a sinkful of dishes at the end of a party. After months of querulous debate over tax reform and deficit reduction, Congress must finally sort things out before heading home for Christmas...
Columbus, a self-proclaimed Charles Dickens fans, wrote Gremlims, Goonies, and Young Sherlock Holmes, and is currently sitting on or near the top of the film-writing pile...
...going to take his wife, his two daughters, his pile of clips about irrelevant developments in Boston politics, and a shitload of untold stories of Harvard skeletons and white elephants that you'll never get now," one official, who asked to remain nameless, said...