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While it lacks the experience of its Italian, Russian or Romanian counterparts, the U.S. women's foil team is ranked No. 3 in the world. Peter Westbrook, a four-time Olympian, could repeat his 1984 medal-winning performance in sabre...
Lucky for Dole, Bauer was willing to play his part; indeed it was a confluence of needs--Bauer's for publicity, Dole's for a foil. Bauer, an acolyte of James Dobson's, whose Focus on the Family ministry reaches millions of the faithful every day on 2,000 radio stations, took Dole to task for moving his declaration of tolerance from the preamble of the party platform, where it would apply to a variety of issues, to the antiabortion plank. But just in case this micromovement was too tiny to register with women voters, Dole also took out after...
...hero of the weekend for Harvard was junior Greg Chan, who finished second in the men's foil division, making him a First Team All-American. Other qualifiers included sophomore Jill Katz (18th place, women's foil), junior co-captain Mallory Stewart (18th, women's epee) and sophomore Lee Scheffler (20th, sabre...
Postseason awards went to many women fencers. Katz took First Team All-Ivy in the foil, followed by junior Sara Crasson and junior co-captain Brindsi Chan on the foil Second Team...
...women foil fencers went into last week's World Cup in Atlanta with the top ranking and a chance to show their competitors from Italy, Germany and Romania that Americans will be medal contenders at the Olympics. What they left with, though, was a disappointing early-round defeat. "Our team wasn't really performing as a unit," said Ann Marsh, the No. 1 American. But, she adds, "by the Olympics we'll be able to pull it all together...