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...would-be Olympians are a few hundred miles south, in the volcanoes of central Oregon, where the second of three qualifying events is taking place. The Mount Bachelor ski area is packed with truckloads of sound equipment, brimming with $10,000 purses and populated by whole contingents of coaches. For the halfpipe, snowboarding's freestyle discipline and Haakonsen's main event, Todd Richards launches and spins his way past fellow American Ross Powers toward a victory. Richards, who defeated Haakonsen at last year's U.S. Open in Stratton, Vt., was expected to challenge Haakonsen for the gold in Nagano. Their...
...father was a postal worker, his mother a caterer to upper-class whites. Tending bar at their parties, Jordan saw the kind of life he wanted to lead, a kind of life then denied to blacks. His aspirations led him into the civil rights movement. After earning a bachelor's degree at DePauw University and a law degree from Howard, he came to prominence in 1961 when a howling white mob tried to prevent a young woman named Charlayne Hunter from becoming one of the first blacks to enter the University of Georgia. Jordan, a law clerk of 25, used...
Perry was born in Paris, France, graduated from St. Mark's School and later received both his bachelor's and master's degrees from Harvard. In addition to his work in education, Perry published a translation of Homer's Iliad with Alston Hurd Chase...
After receiving her Bachelor's degree from Vassar in 1931 and her doctorate in agricultural bacteriology from the University of Wisconsin in 1934, Bunting-Smith taught at Bennington, where she became aware of the educational discrepancies between men and women, her son said...
...desert billionaire does have its perks in addition to its quirks. Twice divorced (he has two children, Khalid, 18, and Reem, 14), Alwaleed is not currently linked with any woman. He laughs sheepishly when people tell him, as they frequently do, that he is the world's most eligible bachelor. In contrast to the stereotype of the whoring petro-sheik, he calls himself a "calorie counter" who doesn't drink or smoke and has an American's obsession with fitness (he now weighs in at 136 lbs.). His only vice seems to be, hardly surprisingly, an appetite for luxury...