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...center of the ultimate confrontation lay three figures: Martin, principal owner George Steinbrenner, and slugger Reggie "Reggae" Jackson. Last week Martin suspended Reggae for five days, after he ignored a coach's sign and bunted with two strikes on him in the tenth inning of a game against the Royals. Reggae insisted he was just trying to help the club; Martin insisted he was just trying to help himself, at everyone else's expense...
...cases, doctors were unable to work the catheters through the arteries to the point of blockage.) The promising findings lead Chief of Medicine Michael Bruno to estimate that the procedure could be used in place of bypass operations in perhaps 10% to 15% of patients-and at about one-tenth the $15,000 average cost of a bypass...
Fischer, no spendthrift, sued the magazine over the article. He is known to have contributed at least $94,000 to the Worldwide Church. A trifling sum, when compared with the generosity of a reported 75,000 church members, many of meager means, who each year give more than a tenth of their gross income to the cause. The fabulous take: $75 million a year, including large donations from Garner Ted's radio-TV fans...
...Currier was my tenth choice. I lived there for a semester and then left. But it was a bitch to move. The whole transfer process was run by one woman. The only way to move someplace good was to pull strings by talking to someone inside the House, like a tutor, and having him put in a good word for you", Joan D. Channick '78 said...
...author is no Nabokov, though he shares the master's taste for drollery and erudition. Like Nabokov, he is also something of an outsider. Born in Massachusetts, Theroux has lived abroad most of his adult life. His present home is London. Picture Palace is his tenth novel; The Great Railway Bazaar, an account of the author's international train travels, was a bestseller in 1975, and his reviews and critieism appear with regularity in the U.S. and England...