Word: debi
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...DEBI THOMAS, 29; CHICAGO, ILL. U.S. and World Skating Champion In the 1988 Winter Olympics, Debi Thomas was America's favorite against the communist bloc's darling, Katarina Witt. Katarina claimed the gold. Debi stumbled and received the bronze. Though she competed professionally for nearly four more years, Thomas has chosen to pursue life outside the rink. She graduated from Stanford and is now a third-year medical student at Northwestern, planning to specialize in surgery. She has been married and divorced, has done broadcasting work and gives occasional motivational speeches. While medicine will consume her foreseeable future...
...Kings as standoffish outsiders. "We hardly see any of these people," says Mtamanika Youngblood, who heads a local historic-preservation program. "For them to unilaterally decide that the National Park Service cannot stay in this community is not acceptable to us." As for the Kings' proposed museum, city councilwoman Debi Starnes asserts that "we have seen no plans, no timetable, no financing package...
...programs, and not incidentally to publicize the Forum's wider agenda. Opponents of OBE have managed to galvanize concern to the point that parents in suburban Atlanta stick leaflets on car windshields denouncing the "dumbing down" of classes and the substitution of "psychotherapy" for the three Rs. Debi Schwier, an anti-OBE organizer in Gwinnett County, denounces such reforms as "one of the most blatant shifts in the history of the U.S. from what they call the Judeo-Christian ethic to an atheistic, humanistic ethic." She fears that the schools may tamper with her daughter's parent-instilled understanding...
...last Winter Games too provided a perfect illustration of the struggle: Katarina Witt, the self-styled "worker's hero" from Karl-Marx-Stadt in East Germany, vs. Debi Thomas, the all-American Stanford premed student. In the left corner, a communist figure skater who lived like a princess and had been trained since infancy to go for gold; in the right, a determined young black woman who had overcome hardship to chase her dream. In the middle, the opera both chose as accompaniment was Bizet's tale of the working-class heroine, Carmen. Who could not see their rivalry...
...state has produced legions of homegrown sports stars (sprinter Florence Griffith Joyner, high diver Greg Louganis, slugger Darryl Strawberry) and has polished the skills of legions more who moved to California to train (swimmer Janet Evans, decathlete Jackie Joyner-Kersee, volleyball player Karch Kiraly). From title-winning ice skaters (Debi Thomas) to record-setting long jumpers (Mike Powell), from Olympic champion swimmers (Matt Biondi) to gold-medal skiers (Bill Johnson), California is the American sports machine. Nearly 30% of the U.S. athletes at the 1988 Summer Olympics were native or transplanted Californians. They won 30 medals...