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...unit that started three seniors, including fourth-round NFL draft pick Kacyvenski, will now start two true freshmen, Dante Balestracci on the weak side and Jeffrey Reiman on the strong side, for the game against Holy Cross because of injuries to the top three upperclassman linebackers. Sophomore John Perry's injury especially hurt since Murphy had rated him the top linebacker coming out of spring camp...
...longer terrorizing the Ivy League, the fourth-round NFL draft pick has left a gaping hole in the linebacker corps with his graduation...
...Guerrouj. It is the apparent ease with which he turbines energy down through his heart, lungs and legs onto the track. Like a Menuhin or a Matisse, El Guerrouj is the consummate artist who makes the end product look as simple as a tune-up or a rough draft. That was certainly the impression he left with those of us lucky enough to see him run the 1,500 m at the world championships in Seville last year. He crossed the line slowing down to a 3:27.65 clocking, blowing kisses to the packed stadium after what Coe described...
...vice president violated all my instructions. He wrote a first draft, printed it out, and then expanded on the original in a 20-minute rewrite session. This despite my exhortation that this should be a breezy, five-minute note, as if he were writing a quick, funny-thing-happened-today e-mail to a friend. Of course, this may be how the vice president dashes off e-mails...
...political career moved fast. Not long after he graduated from Yale Law School--student and then family deferments kept him out of the Vietnam draft--he decided, as everybody had always expected he would, to run for office. (At Yale they called him "Senator.") He was elected first to the Connecticut state legislature, which required him to knock off a maverick fellow Democrat in the primary. An early shot at Congress was a bust; he tried for it in 1980, when Ronald Reagan's coattails suffocated Democrats everywhere. But two years later he was elected state attorney general, which gave...