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"It's slowly starting to sink in that I have an Olympic silver medal," Burns said. "We tried to think only of racing that race and beating our opponents instead of thinking about where we were so much that only now is it starting to sink in."
In the last contest of her 13-year rowing career, Lindsay H. Burns '87 and her partner Teresa Z. Bell rowed a "perfect race" Sunday to claim a silver medal in women's lightweight double sculls at the Olympic Games in Atlanta.
Burns said that single race had been her entire focus for the last six months and only now is she beginning to realize how much the years of dedication to her sport have paid off.
Lebed was important to Yeltsin's re-election, so Chernomyrdin has loyally kept silent during most of these provocations. Now that Yeltsin has renominated him as Prime Minister, and now that Duma speaker Gennadi Seleznyov, a top Communist leader, has indicated he will not oppose him, Chernomyrdin is firing back...
The fact that Jackson was born black in the segregated South is essential to unraveling his character, but, as Frady convincingly demonstrates, the pangs of racial insult are not the sole, or even most important, source of Jackson's relentless drive for attention and self-definition. The illegitimate offspring of...