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Although the media relations department of Vanity Fair magazine insists its 1996 Ivy League All-Star football team was selected on the basis of athletic ability rather than camerasavvy physiques, several full-page close-ups of rippling chests seem to suggest otherwise...
...August, the magazine flew the players to Los Angeles for a day-long photo session. Eion Hu '97, the running back who represents Harvard on the All-Star team, said the shoot was intended to change the scrawny, intellectual image of Ivy football players...
That deal was the catalyst for a tidal wave of change which, in the last five years, has brought an all-star team of Afro-American scholars to Harvard, earned the department national commendations and could place it in the position to affect American social policy on race and welfare...
...multimillionaires hasn't blown away or awed the opposition like the original group. But nonetheless, no team has seriously threatened the Dream Team, and don't expect Yugoslavia to change that. Like the U.S., Yugoslavia goes into the gold medal match undefeated. Unlike the Dream Team's 12 NBA all-stars , the Yugoslavian team has just three NBA players, none of whom have played in an all-star game. Charlotte's Vlade Divac leads Yugoslavia, along with Toronto's Zan Tabac and Miami's Sasha Daniliovic. In other events Saturday, Andre Agassi, trying to bounce back from disappointing early losses...
...allowed; then the ability to play wanes. But things often get best just before the end. They say that 41-year-old Ozzie Smith, the great Cardinals shortstop, should have quit last year before having to suffer the sight of a better, younger fielder taking his place. Watching the All-Star game last month, one might have agreed when Ozzie let a high chopper play him that he would have charged without blinking a few years ago. But then he made a classic double-play pivot in the sixth and beamed like...