Word: choses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When Maria Dunn chose to go to Boston University, she is knew she was in for some excitement...
Professor of Hindu Religion Diana L. Eck didn't "want to go to Paris with the Smith girls that to go to Paris" for her junior year abroad. Intead, she chose the Third World, and her junior year in Banaras. India started the Montana native on a trip that went halfway around the world and ended in a Harvard Faculty chair last fall...
Heiden, who swept five speed-skating gold medals, chose not to capitalize beyond a few polite nods here and there. His sport is as obscure as ever. Even though the U.S. has won 16 speed-skating gold medals, including the first one, by Charles Jewtraw in 1924, few Americans are stirred by so much gliding and arm swinging. Terry McDermott, the skating barber of 1964, and Sheila Young, a highlight of 1976, came around (and around) without cutting any lasting...
...directing squads in Brooklyn and The Bronx to five league championships and a state title and an Austin, Minn., team to a national crown), Vairo assembled his four-man coaching staffand, last June in Colorado Springs, held tryouts for Sarajevo. From an original list of 250 amateurs, the coaches chose 80 top skaters. Vairo was looking for players fast enough to cover the wider Olympic rinks and adaptable to what he calls "sophisticated pond hockey"-the patient game of weaving and passing that wins Olympic medals, as opposed to the dump-and-chase, bump-and-grind National Hockey League variety...
...head coach at Permian earns $43,000 a year, a whole lot more than the average Permian teacher's salary of about $24,500. Says Charles Broughton, principal of Permian High: "Some communities choose to build a $10 million library or a $20 million civic center. This community chose to build a sports complex for its young people. A winning football team and a strong academic program are not mutually exclusive...