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That due could end up to be the Ivies' finest one-two backfield, and could prove the keys to keeping Harvard in the hunt for at least a piece of its third straight league crown...
...Marxist state. The announcement was greeted with enthusiasm by the 6,000 delegates and visitors who had gathered at a race track in the capital of Harare for the first congress in 20 years of Mugabe's Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU). The meeting was conducted in the finest leftist tradition, from rhythmic hand clapping to the playing of the Internationale. Proclaimed one banner: LONG LIVE OUR MARXIST-LENINIST PARTY...
...last Ashford's position as the world's finest sprinter was confirmed in the 100-meter dash. Since she was twelve, and she is 27 now, none of Ashford's records and all of her dreams have been set at the Olympics. But she has been awakened frequently by nightmares: in 1979 she ran away from the best international 100 and 200 fields, celebrated East Germans Marlies Göhr and Marita Koch included, at the World Cup. But by 1980 her fine, fragile legs were popping strings, and they could not be summoned...
...tolerant, less restrictive age, the Sears catalog mixed the art of salesmanship with a little bunkum. "We Aim to Illustrate Honestly and Correctly Every Article," Sears stated around the turn of the century. But that did not stop the company from claiming that its goods were "celebrated," "of the finest quality," "thoroughly high grade" not to mention "cheapest...
...told U.S. Women's Coach Don Peters, "Theirs are shinier than ours." Two nights later, everything that glittered was around Retton's neck. She won the gold medal in the all-around championship, the most coveted prize in gymnastics, since it marks the winner as the finest gymnast in the world. It is the crown Nadia Comaneci once wore, and Lyudmila Tourischeva, and which Olga Korbut, for all her charm, was too limited an athlete to achieve. Retton sealed her claim to it in the most dramatic duel in the history of the sport, winning by performing...