Word: debi
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Figure Skating: The U.S. men's trio of Brian Boitano, Chris Bowman, and Harvard's Paul Wylie will be in the medal run. The women--led by Debi Thomas and Jill Trenary--are also impressive. But the 1984 gold medalist, East German Katarina Witt, is still the favorite...
Albright is friendly with both Wylie and Stanford's Debi Thomas, who is favored to take the silver medal in the women's figure skating competition. Her advice to the two is simple...
...been politically involved. A year ago, a crude instruction sheet called the "Christian Political Action List" advised new activists to "hide your strengths" and "pretend to be interested" in general party business. Much of the missionary work was done in evangelical churches, particularly those with Pentecostal practices.* Typical was Debi Nuhn, a teacher who had come 250 miles with her husband Tom and other members of the Word of Life Christian Church. Like Robertson, she said, members of her charismatic congregation were "born-again and spirit-filled." The Nuhns have become involved in politics only because of Robertson...
...Hercules, or vice versa. Susan Weaver, for example, announced at 14 that she was henceforth Sigourney, a name that impressed her as "long and curvy, with a musical ring." For those apprehensive about anything so drastic, there is the face-lifting change in spelling: Debbie now wishes to be Debi, or Debbey...
...Americans had captured both the men's and women's singles titles at the annual World Figure Skating Championships. In Geneva last week neither of the defending favorites was from the U.S., but when the ice cleared, the best in the world were two Californians, Brian Boitano, 22, and Debi Thomas, 18. (He is from Sunnyvale, she from San Jose.) In the freestyle final, Boitano zoomed from fourth place to first on the strength of a bravura jitterbugging performance to Gershwin and the blues. Thomas "just got inspired" after watching Boitano, and the next night, instead of playing it safe...