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This year's squad is a transformed one, as four of the six starters did not play last season. Defender Julie Sasner, one of a superb crop of freshmen, got the Crimson rolling on Saturday...
...currently worried about agricultural loans. Farmers are hurting because of falling crop prices and land values. In September the seemingly robust First Chicago ($40.5 billion) stunned investors by projecting a nearly $72 million third-quarter loss, blaming it partly on defaulted farm loans. "We're supposed to be having an economic recovery," says Reed Hoffman, president of Dickinson County Bank ($7.5 million) in Enterprise, Kans. "But it hasn't hit this part of the country. If things continue the way they are, we'll see more farm bankruptcies, more nonperforming loans and more bank closings...
...farm troubles often turn bankers into unwilling villains, a role they play in a recent crop of mortgage-melodrama movies, including Country and Places in the Heart. One case of real-life tragedy occurred in September 1983 in southwestern Minnesota, where a farmer and his 18-year-old son decided to get even with a small-town bank that had foreclosed on their land. The father and son lured two bankers to the farm and then shot them to death. One farmer in Nebraska was killed last month in a shootout with police who were serving him papers...
With most of last year's squads in fact a crop of promising freshmen and the return of Jenny Stricker, Mark Henry and Cliff Sheehan from time off, it looks like both teams could find their way back to the top of the league...
...best boxer in this Olympic crop is Pernell Whitaker, who pressed over 200 amateur fights into his 20 years, but is still a lightweight and still a southpaw. Glory could be as hard to find as opponents. Kindly the referee cautioned Far-rain Comeaux's handlers to keep a towel handy for tossing into the ring. They asked if they might just wave it, and he said they could. They did. Then, before Headliner Mark Breland came out, poor Tyrell Biggs, 23, went six well-hooted rounds with a muscle-bound actor named Mike Evans, the Budweiser Light "champion...