Word: champions
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Throwing the first punch against husband Mike Tyson last October, Robin Givens hired Marvin Mitchelson, the dean of American divorce gurus, to handle her much publicized breakup with the world heavyweight boxing champion. But Givens soon dropped the Los Angeles attorney and signed with Raoul Felder, 54, a New York City divorce lawyer who has won handsome settlements for the former wives of Mel Brooks, Martin Scorsese and Robin Leach, among others. For Felder to take charge of the season's most ballyhooed split seemed a fitting turnaround. Mitchelson, 60, who has recently been accused of professional misconduct and even...
Although the Harvard women's basketball team finished tied for first place in the Ivy League, the squad ended the season on a sour note. The Crimson lost a chance at capturing an outright title when it fell to eventual Co-Champion Dartmouth in the season finale, 72-65, at Briggs Cage...
...term Afro American came into vogue during the 1970s, but African American is just beginning to catch on. Former tennis champion Arthur Ashe has written a new three-volume book, A Hard Road to Glory, that is subtitled A History of the African-American Athlete. While some people may find the phrase too much of a mouthful, it does have what Jackson calls "cultural integrity," conveying the dual heritage of blacks born and bred in this country...
Negotiations appeared to collapse last Monday, when Drexel's board of directors voted against a settlement. Joseph boasted that his staff had sifted through 1.5 million Drexel documents without finding any incriminating evidence. A former lightweight boxing champion at Harvard, Joseph insisted that the best defense against a heavy punch is "to come back at your opponent smiling...
...champion of condoms, a pusher of the Pill, a voice for vasectomies -- and a major reason that the annual rate of Thailand's population growth was cut in half, from 3.2% to 1.6%, in just 15 years. And while he sometimes comes across as an energetic public relations man with a bagful of gimmicks, Mechai Viravaidya, 47, the engineer of Thailand's remarkable drive to curb its birthrate, regards population control as serious business...