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...pound frame of center Frank Fernandez emanates an aura of quiet leadership and athletic prowess.As the senior prepares to play his last game in a Harvard uniform, he looks back on his fondest memory.“My sophomore year being part of that undefeated team, going down to Penn and winning, being Ivy League champions, it was really just a great moment,” he recalls.That the defining moment of his football career was not an individual achievement, but rather being a part of a team effort, speaks volumes about Fernandez’s persona.Never an individualist, Fernandez?...
...rider, who asks to be identified only as Michel, says his fondest memories are of the 'incomparable euphoria of strength and power I'd get finding myself at the head of a tired and flagging pack, knowing I was about to pull away and ride to victory' ... Last year Michel, who is 25, underwent several weeks of specialized detoxification treatment for cocaine and heroin addiction developed during his racing career ... 'I first began using cortisone to work through injury pain. But because cortisone eats muscle, I began taking testosterone and nandrolone in the off-season to get it back faster...
Though playing for Harvard in that atmosphere afforded me some of my fondest memories as an athlete, I think I could get used to being a sideshow for Conrad the Crawdad...
...long after he signed the Emancipation Proclamation, his old friend, Speed, visited him at the White House. Lincoln reminded him of their talks during his depression two decades earlier. "I believe that in this measure," Lincoln said, referring to the proclamation, "my fondest hopes will be realized." Nearly two centuries after his birth, we can say with certainty that the ambition that powered Lincoln from his earliest days--the desire to establish an admirable reputation on earth so that his story could be told after he died--has been realized far beyond his fondest hopes...
...after surgery, asking for beer, talking forthrightly with President Reagan by phone and bullishly announcing to the world, "I feel like I've got ten years left." Three strokes, one suffered in mid-November, have left the once irrepressible Schroeder feeble, barely able to speak, weepy and depressed. His fondest hope--to return to his home in Jasper, Ind.--has been repeatedly dashed by setbacks. "We have bounced from emotions of excited, happy and hopeful to frustrated, sad, angry and helpless," says Schroeder's son Mel, 31, an engineer. "It hasn't been the easiest of times." Not for Bill...