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Construction crews are replacing the existingsix-inch line with a 12-inch line. The extracapacity is necessary, Hawkes said, in partbecause new sprinkler systems installed thissummer will increase the flow of water to thedorms. The iron pipes are also prone to chemicalreactions underground, and tend to build up crustover time, Hawkes said...
...takes great umbrage when anyone tries to get him to explain how he would attack it. Does he favor higher taxes? No . . . Well, yes . . . Well, maybe. So far, the most specific program Perot has been able to describe would balance the budget by (shades of Michael Dukakis!) taxing the "underground economy" and (shades of the Grace Commission!) eliminating waste and fraud in government. It seems likely, somehow, that if it were really that simple, someone else would already have done...
...readers eventually grow up, and thus Gaines bears paternal responsibility for a large swath of pop culture from the past quarter-century. Virtually every stand-up comedy routine is a regurgitation of Dave Berg's Lighter Side strips. Underground artists from R. Crumb on have taken inspiration from Harvey Kurtzman (Gaines' editorial genius, who left after four years to launch a doomed satirical magazine for Hugh Hefner) and Mad's dense, rude cartoon style. Parodies of advertising and TV did not really exist before Mad invented the form. Ernie Kovacs, along with Bob and Ray, wrote free-lance for Gaines...
...piano man, his mother a midwife. As a child, McCartney was a Boy Scout and a bird watcher. His first real instrument was a Zenith six-string, which he played left-handed. In 1960 he was just one of four unknown teenagers performing in the squalor of Liverpool's underground Cavern club. By 1965 the Beatles had stormed America, met the Queen and been hailed as pop prophets. By 1971 -- before any of the four hit 30 -- it was all over, ruined by a bitter business fight...
While still in high school, Milosevic met his wife, the ambitious and intense Mirjana Markovic, whose family ranked among the most prominent communists in Serbia. When she was only a year old, her mother was killed by Tito's partisans after revealing information about underground communists to Nazi-backed police in Belgrade. Today Mirjana remains a powerful member of the hard-line League of Communists-Movement for Yugoslavia, which enjoys strong support within the army. She wields considerable influence over her husband. She zealously safeguards him by watching for any signs of disloyalty, real or imagined...