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...blast-off, there was no big clock ticking off a countdown--just a deep voice that suddenly said, "Zazhiganiye [ignition]." As the white Soyuz rocket soared up over the brown Kazakh desert, it flew into a new era of space exploration, transforming one of the 20th century's fiercest rivalries into a partnership for the 21st century. Thagard, 51, became the first American to be shot into space aboard a Russian launcher. And after a two-day ride on the Soyuz, the physician-astronaut became the first American to take up residence in the Mir space station, where he will...
While Northeastern is not Harvard's fiercest competition, it was a fun way for the Crimson to warm up for a big meet this weekend at Princeton...
...valedictory tour around the circuit, too often immersed in memories rather than the task at hand. The rigid fat-free diet, the weight training for strength and the basketball drills for agility have only stayed, not stopped, the passing years. Navratilova at her best is still the fiercest force in what looks like a sport of grace but is in truth one of intimidation. These days, though, her best comes on single shots or at most single games. Martina can no longer play a Martina match. The woman who once won 54 straight matches, lost one, then won 74 more...
...toting youth gangs. While the A.N.C.'s top echelon is mostly moderate, almost 50% of its 1 million rank-and- file members are in the militant camp. If reforms begin to slip and there is no tangible progress in a year or so, Mandela may find his fiercest challenger is his fiery, camouflage-clad wife. "Winnie," says Tom Lodge, an authority on South African political movements, "is an instinctive populist. She will tell the masses what they want to hear...
...films replace the common fan's rooting interest for the home team -- just a geographic accident really -- with moral superiority. They are not just our guys, they're good guys; in some of these pictures, the fiercest competition is about which character gets to display the highest level of insufferable righteousness. "Sports movies always draw a contrived moral," notes film critic Andrew Sarris. And that moral is: the person who wins is always the better person. "But there is no moral in real sports," Sarris says. "Somebody wins, and somebody loses, and that's it. I watch all kinds...