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...kids in class who never let anyone see them study but show everyone their straight A's. They are huge women (Venus, 21, at 6 ft. 1 in.; Serena, 19, an even more muscled 5 ft. 10 in.) who learned the game at home in inner-city Compton, Calif., under an amateur coach, their father--not at the boot camp of coach Nick Bolletieri, where most promising kids are sent. They dominate through their athleticism. Venus, who can serve a ball at 127 m.p.h., is actually less powerful than her sister. But she's faster, comes to the net more...
Mexico has never been exactly gentle with illegal migrants. Marco Herazo Diaz, 26, a Honduran farmer, is waiting at Tapachula's Catholic-run shelter, the House of the Migrant, to see if his sister in Compton, Calif., can send him money; he gave his last $50 to a man who said he was an immigration agent. Southern Mexico is full of bandits, some of them Central Americans themselves. "The migrant's route is a cemetery without crosses," says Father Flor Maria Rigoni, who runs the shelter...
...Conservation Project criticized the plan as too little too late and called for blocking off 300,000 additional acres. "Red Table is one of the finest undisturbed mixed forest stands in the Rocky Mountains, and making it a wilderness area would protect that," says the project's director, Richard Compton. And, he points out, the plan would still leave a yawning 1.5 million acres for snowmobile use. All told, the public fired off 14,000 impassioned responses to the proposal, with no consensus emerging...
Princeton captured the Compton Cup with a time of 5:313 over Harvard...
George ("Georgie," "Little George," "Bushtail," "Tweeds," "Lip," "Temporary," "Bombastic Bushkin," "Dubya") Bush knows from nicknames. As in Little Italy or Compton, there must have been something about the tightly knit Wasp community of Midland, Texas, some unique social condition that encouraged the cultivation of nicknames, because everyone had one. From his father George ("Poppy") Bush, the war hero with one of those curiously effeminate preppie nicknames (like "Bunny" and "Pinkie"), to Barbara ("Bar") Bush (no one dared stray farther from the source name), to brother John Ellis ("Jeb") Bush's acronym of a name, to family friends "Spider" and "Wemus...