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...before the Moscow Olympics, just about the only people sweating harder than would-be Olympic athletes are the American officials trying to keep them from going. Last week the U.S. pressed its boycott campaign while plans for a counter-Olympics inched along and undecided nations continued to pass the baton. Among the week's setbacks, standoffs and small triumphs...
Actually, Louganis's dancing career started long before he could pronounce "degree of difficulty," and he cites a photograph of him when he was two years old wearing tap shoes and holding a baton...
Carville sprawls across 336 peaceful acres along a bend in the Mississippi River between New Orleans and Baton Rouge, functioning more as a self-contained community than a hospital. Though much has changed since the night in 1894 when a group of crafty sisters of charity used a barge to smuggle seven leprosy patients up river from New Orleans while telling suspicious residents of the nearby town they planned to establish an ostrich farm on the abandoned Indian Camp Plantation grounds, Carville still contains enough of a "leper colony" aura to frighten the most stoic newcomer...
Neville Marriner takes a symphonic baton between his teeth...
...promising new chamber orchestra called the Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields was gathered in London to make its first recording. The players decided that they needed something they had done without in their initial concerts: a conductor. Their concertmaster, Neville Marriner, hesitantly took the baton. "We went along for a few bars; then everything broke down," Marriner recalls. "We tried a few more bars and everything broke down again. Finally our oboist said, 'Well, Nev, if you're going to conduct, either stand somewhere where we can see you or somewhere where...