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Already a three-time All-American, Stauffer is once again one of 15 finalists for the Missouri Athletic Club Sports Foundation Collegiate Soccer award, which goes to the nation's top American-born or -naturalized player. Also for the second time in her career, she is a finalist for college soccer's other elite individual honor, the Herman Trophy...
...LINDSAY DAVENPORT, 22, her first Grand Slam title in her first Grand Slam final; at the U.S. Open tennis tournament; in New York City. Davenport is the first American-born player to win the U.S. competition since Chris Evert...
...country's economic woes--bad debt, creeping unemployment, collapsing banks and businesses--featuring a series of film clips in which top politicians and bureaucrats kept insisting that there would be no bank failures and that the economy was recovering, even growing. "The subtext," says Alicia Ogawa, an American-born banker who has lived in Japan for more than a decade, "was that you couldn't possibly believe a thing these people said...
WALLIS WARFIELD SIMPSON 1936 The American-born divorce who made a King give up his throne...
...monks and the main devotion of laypeople is once-a-week temple offerings. "American people don't want to be monks and nuns," says Kornfield. "They want practices that transform the heart." The approach seemed to work: Kornfield's meditation seminars with Goldstein and Sharon Salzberg in Barre, Mass., and at Spirit Rock in California, turned out thousands of graduates. Zendos began spreading to Middle America, and when Chogyam Trungpa died in 1987 at age 47, a contingent of lay American-born Vajrayana Buddhists was able to perform the funeral liturgy along with Tibetans. (Last year Naropa Institute became...