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...Orleans' crime problem poses a special danger because of the economy's dependence on tourism and conventions. They are the principal industries left in town. "If crime begins scaring off visitors, it could kill the golden goose," warns Loyola University political scientist Ed Renwick. An equal concern is that crime and decay are impeding the effort to attract new business, which is vitally needed to replace thousands of energy-industry jobs lost in the 1980s oil bust...
...triumphs left Austrian and Swiss favorites floundering in the powder. The two powerhouse Alpine nations, where World Cup races are routinely televised and schuss stars are celebrities, had dominated Olympic skiing for decades. Yet last week a Norwegian (the dynamic Kjetil Andre Aamodt) and a Canadian (the surprising Ed Podivinsky) won silver and bronze medals in downhill after Moe, while a Russian, Svetlana Gladischeva, edged Italian Isolde Kostner for silver in the women's super-G. In the men's super- G, Markus Wasmeier, a Bavarian who likes to play Mozart on his zither, won the gold, beating...
...author, now an op-ed page columnist for The Times, also suggested that Brustein was quick to criticize the work of gay writers in the professor's theater column in The New Republic. And Rich charged that Brustein did not support Black productions...
Premeds are a much maligned group at Harvard. Not a week goes by when some joke about our little stressed friends appears on the Op-ed pages of some campus journal. The popular stereotype portrays them as cut-throat anal retentive control freaks--a mob of students armed with red-blue black green click pens and mechanical pencils converging on the Science Center en mass at precisely nine o'clock every morning...
Nevertheless, opinions surfaced everywhere as to Harding's future on the team -- from beauty salons to op-ed pages to the President of the U.S. ("She should be given the benefit of the doubt"). Nike Inc. pledged $25,000 to help Harding defend herself if she is booted off the team. Others, however, were less sympathetic. Scott Hamilton, the men's Olympic figure-skating champion in 1984, believes "Olympic athletes are expected to live up to a higher ideal, to remain pure...