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...mention mismanagement, terrorism, professionalism and overcommercialization. The Olympics have of course changed--the tug of war and the 200-m obstacle swim are no longer events--and the Games today may not be exactly what Coubertin, who disliked the idea of team sports, had in mind. But the baton of his athletic ideal has been passed from Athens to Paris to St. Louis ...and now to Atlanta, for the Centennial Games...
...unity rallies focus on promoting other Republican candidates. Dole's travel last Thursday was almost completely arranged by the party because he attended a fund raiser on a paddle boat on the Ohio River, a "unity rally" at the landing in Louisville, Kentucky, and later another "unity" barbecue in Baton Rouge, Louisiana...
...Rodney King riots broke out in Los Angeles, John A. Capello '96 was one of the only white students at Southern University, a historically black college in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He was standing outside the music building when a group of students approached him and yelled "Kill him!" The group laughed it off, but for Capello the incident sparked a concern with social identity that took him on an interesting detour from his goal of becoming a professional musician...
...indoor Heptagonals, the Crimson was buoyed by MacLennan, who flew 11.60 meters in the long jump and a win by Williams in the 400m. However, a mishandled baton exchange in the 400m relay helped seal Harvard's fate...
...lined up against a wall and took part in shooting 16 of them, when he sliced an old man's throat with a broken chair, when he clubbed and shot another Bosnian man to death, or when he savagely beat a Croat priest and five others with a police baton, a metal wrench and a car jack. From April 17 until Nov. 20, 1992, the witnesses say, Lugar terrorized thousands of non-Serb residents of Bosanski Samac in northern Bosnia until they either fled or died. He stopped only when Bosnian Serb authorities jailed him--unjustly, he huffs--for torturing...