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...Pesci is Vinny, an amateur New York lawyer who travels with his fiance to rural South Carolina to defend two alleged murderers. Someone has shot Jimmy Willis, and the local police believe this someone to be Vinny's cousin Bill Gambini (Ralph Macchio) and his college buddy Stan (Mitchell Whitfield). Some local eyewitnesses mistakenly identify them--in classic television sitcom fashion--effectively destroying their thus far innocent road trip to California...
Harvard has now gone undefeated this season, capturing virtually every amateur available to them...
...last year the International Amateur Athletic Federation, which governs track-and-field contests, decided to go back to something closer to the original method: during a routine physical, a team doctor simply and discreetly takes note of an athlete's genitals. In a report in last week's Journal of the American Medical Association, the organization proclaimed its satisfaction with the practice and called upon groups governing other sports to follow suit. Timed to coincide with the Winter Olympics, the report is sure to embarrass the International Olympic Committee, which remains wedded to chromosome testing...
...conviction, succumbing to his chronic habit of sagging in the final minutes. Wylie, by contrast, resisted his tendency to choke in major competitions and finally delivered a performance that enabled the judges to reward his brilliant artistry. A relative old man at 27, the gracious Harvard graduate capped his amateur career with the evening's only standing ovation...
Purists fret that such derring-do will squeeze out artistry now that Soviet skaters -- like amateur athletes the world over -- must go begging for dollars. Tamara Moskvina, who coached the two top Unified Team pairs, counters that her former nation's tradition of excellence will persist because "it's in our blood and our culture." After spending 4 1/2 enchanting minutes with Mishkutienok and Dmitriev, enthusiasts of the sport must hope that she is right...