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...plea bargain surprised and upset many players in the 69-day soap opera. The U.S. Figure Skating Association, which had counted on Harding to head its squad in Japan now that Kerrigan seems to be retiring from amateur sport, hastily tapped national bronze medalist Nicole Bobek to fill the empty slot. That leaves two young skaters with little experience in international competition -- Bobek, 16, and Olympic alternate Michelle Kwan, 13 -- to represent...
...hinder the prosecution of the assault on Nancy Kerrigan. Harding, who denies any role in the attack itself, was sentenced to three years' probation and a $100,000 fine. As part of the plea, she will also have to resign from the U.S. Figure Skating Association, ending her amateur career...
Those would be the Inter-Collegiate Association of American Amateur Athletics Championships (that'll twist your tongue), held Saturday and Sunday at Princeton...
Smith and Malone had been an odd couple from the start. Smith, 56, an amateur actor and playwright who turned Bell Atlantic into the most venturesome of the seven Baby Bells, had come up through the staid bureaucratic ranks of AT&T before its breakup in 1984. Malone, 52, is a strong-willed, publicity-averse entrepreneur with a Ph.D. in operations research who built the fledgling TCI into the country's largest cable operator, gaining a reputation for ruthlessness along...
...attended for two years. But his real gift was for music. He played the violin obsessively, retreating to the bathroom with bow in hand for three to five hours at a stretch. He also sang and played guitar and, after leaving college, appeared on Ted Mack's Original Amateur Hour and in nightclubs as Calypso Gene or the Charmer. He has said that after hearing Elijah Muhammad speak in 1955, he had a dream in which he was expected to choose between show business and an unknown future -- and he chose the unknown...