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This Friday, the Harvard softball team will leave the very close confines of Carey Cage, where it has practiced for the past six weeks, and head south for Fort Meyers, Fla...
...that under Aramony's leadership, the United Way of America created and helped finance several taxable spin-off organizations that provided travel, bulk purchasing and other services to local chapters. One of these companies acquired a $430,000 condominium in Manhattan and a $125,000 apartment in Coral Gables, Fla., for business use by Aramony and his associates. The directors of one spin-off, Sales Service/America, which markets United Way trinkets to local affiliates, hired the boss's son, Robert Aramony, to be its president. The younger Aramony's salary has not been disclosed...
...perform 22 tasks currently being done by the cops -- at an estimated 37% savings in cost. These tasks include transporting prisoners, assisting stranded motorists and guarding crime scenes. Similarly, to save money, armed Wackenhut guards have replaced sheriff's deputies on commuter trains in Miami and Palm Beach, Fla...
Already, during the past year no other tour player has come close to his consistency in high-pressure circumstances. Of the half a dozen biggest events on the men's tour -- the four Grand Slams, the tour finale and the Lipton International in Key Biscayne, Fla. -- Courier won three and made the finals of two others. Says novelist Eliot Berry, whose book about the past two years on the tennis circuit, Tough Draw, will be published in August: "Tennis is in significant part a game of intimidation. Although Courier is well behaved, his physical and mental toughness make him very...
Half a dozen years back, Courier and Agassi were roommates at Nick Bollettieri's tennis camp in Bradenton, Fla. Courier left, griping that the flashy Agassi was getting more attention from owner Bollettieri. Courier, the slow but steady type, won the Orange Bowl, a junior tournament, at 16. But he didn't win a pro-tour event until 1989 and didn't add another victory until just 11 months ago, at Indian Wells, Calif. Meanwhile, his agemates Michael Chang and Pete Sampras had joined Agassi in surging ahead. A year and a half ago, when asked to rank...