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...probably sensed she was born both too early and too late. She was already 30 at the time of her great victories. Prize money was unheard of in those amateur days. And the civil rights movement had not gained enough momentum to turn her into an instrument of integration. Still, says King...
...conservation program has worked, but at the expense of commercial fishermen. We are heavily restricted in the amount and size of the tuna we catch, while recreational anglers are not. If consumers want to do something to help fish stocks, they should pressure the government to hold amateur anglers to the conservation and reporting standards of commercial fishermen. The juvenile tuna that are caught and not reported by amateurs outnumber all the giants that are caught and reported by commercial fishermen. JOEY JANCEWICZ Newburyport, Mass...
While at the University of Texas, Leonard won both the 1992 U.S. Amateur and the 1994 NCAA championship. Last year he earned nearly $1 million, drove away with the Buick Open and found himself in Cosmopolitan as one of the magazine's most eligible bachelors. Even though Leonard won the Kemper Open in June, he was still on the fringe of the Ryder Cup team. The week of the British Open he had dinner with Kite, a fellow Longhorn alum, and Kite told him, "Why don't you just go ahead and take care of your Ryder Cup spot this...
...participants in the curious exercise were neither cultists nor performance artists but astronomers--albeit amateur ones. Recruited largely via the Internet, they were helping the astronomical pros study the occultation--or eclipse--of Aldebaran, an observation that could lead to a more precise estimate of the moon's diameter. That figure in turn could serve as a cosmic yardstick by which to measure other heavenly bodies...
...rendering social conventions hilarious, "Shall We Dance?" is bound to tickle the most staid viewer. It makes abundant, admittedly effective use of stock comic devices and characters. Eriko Watanabe cuts a droll figure as the experienced but caustic and somewhat unattractive dancer whom Sugiyama agrees to partner in an amateur competition; Naoto Takenaka hams it up as a painfully self-conscious colleague who dons a wig and hurls himself with fiendish gusto into the rhumba; Sugiyama's two fellow dance-pupils--one short and hyper, one big and docile--offer some great moments of physical comedy. Amusing...