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Zelot says she spends most of her time examining Harvard programs and looking for possible rule violations. She says the most common infractions concern recruitment, academic eligibility and amateur status...
...waltz competition fade away, a new set of 20 dancers step onto the floor and begin moving in pairs to the 60's swing-favorite, "It's in His Kiss." According to judge Shawn Smith, the keys to this dance are timing and degree of enjoyment. Smith, an amateur dancer himself, stands at the edge of the dance floor and, holding his clipboard and detailed score-sheet, observes the motions of the couples, each pair labeled by letter...
Here's the choice. Come Dec. 31, 1999, you can sit around harrumphing that it's amateur night. That those out celebrating the millennium are no doubt the very same people who can't even spell it. (Two Ls, two Ns.) You can work yourself into a froth about how the calendar change promises only to render every check in your checkbook obsolete and produce a baby boomlet of Millies and Millards. As you down a glass of warm buttermilk before bed, you can note ! with satisfaction that the year is off to a bad start: ABC says Two Thousand...
...Perot's Team: Welcome to amateur hour...
Welcome to amateur hour. Indeed, amateurism is now celebrated by Perot insiders as a boon in a season of finely crafted political double-talk and slick negative advertising. "This is anything but a professional organization," admits Orson Swindle, the top Perot lieutenant, called in to refurbish the sagging effort in the dark days following Perot's withdrawal. "We're all amateurs, but that's not a disadvantage. We've got the enthusiasm of the volunteers...