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...Graves said, "A college president needs to remind himself every morning that he is just somebody else's predecessor...
...Francisco Bureau Chief Michael Moritz reported on that city's vice-presidential contender, Mayor Dianne Feinstein, and Associate Editor William R. Doerner, his predecessor as bureau chief, wrote the Feinstein story. Moritz points out that in San Francisco, female politicians now wield considerable power: six of eleven municipal supervisors are women, and so are the city treasurer and two of the area's congressional representatives. Sums up Moritz: "Feinstein has had to work harder, leap higher barriers and endure more political setbacks than most of the men who came before her. And the city is working better than...
What can this team--far younger than the 1983 edition--do that its predecessor couldn't? The biggest difference is baserunning. Last year's team stole 25 bases; this year's squad already has 69. Third baseman Bobby Kay (16 of 18) leads...
...despite noble attempts to rival its award winning predecessor. The Stone Boy is not, as some critics have maintained, another Ordinary People. Though the film does feature some quality acting making for several memorable and rather moving scenes, it does not provide a cathartic evening of personal introspection. The rural Montana pea fields in which the film takes place are as far a cry from the white collar, Illinois suburbs of Ordinary People as possible. And Glenn Close, who gives a convincing, and poignant portrayal of the Stone boy, alias Arthur's mother, is anything but the divisive, embittered figure...
Breathed does have a good sense of self and a good sense of self vs. Trudeau. He tries, somewhat gingerly, to joke about his relationship with his top-box predecessor. In one example. Bloom County star Milo Bloom dreams of being a syndicated cartoonist thrown into the dungeon for missed deadlines, where he is hung on the wall in chains next to a bearded prisoner. The bearded prisoner jokes that he has been in the cellar for nine months, whereupon Milo says "nine months? Wait a minute. Gary Trudeau?...Mum's the word." Nor does Breathed hold back from poking...