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...build a university. In the Academic Planning Report, officials describe RKSU as "a unique venture in higher education." Such a project would certainly be "unique" if it ever saw the light of day, but at this time in Iran, as Keenan says, "it would be very foresighted or very foolish of anyone to try to start up a university...
...ardently as he is by his creditors. The women win out and, as they were to do throughout his life, inspire and uplift him. To escape the moneylenders, however, he marries a rich widow twelve years his senior-and immediately falls in love with her. Often silly and foolish, but kind and loyal, his Mary Anne (Mary Peach) becomes, after politics, the passion of his life. "Dizzy married me for my money," she says late in life, "but I think if he had to do it again, he'd do it for love." She was right: Disraeli, that most...
...disparity. Colts mature more quickly too, coming into their full strength as runners months ahead of the female of the species. But exceptional fillies have proved the match of the males, at least on paper. The great Ruffian, who broke down in a 1975 match race against the colt Foolish Pleasure, clocked times significantly faster than any of the colts of her class over the same distances on the same tracks. But Ruffian was never entered in a race against the boys until the fateful one in which she fractured her foreleg and had to be destroyed. A haunting irony...
Diana Firestone and her husband Bert, owner of 1975 Derby winner Foolish Pleasure, bought Genuine Risk at auction for $32,000. Her bloodlines were impressive: her sire, Exclusive Native, was also the sire of Affirmed, the 1978 Triple Crown winner, and her grandsire, Gallant Man, won the Belmont Stakes in 1957. The Firestones, who breed and occasionally break their own horses at the family's Virginia farm, register the colts under Mr. Firestone's name and the fillies under Mrs. Firestone...
...world," the Ayatullah railed. "Carter has reduced his political prestige to zero. He must give up the hope of re-election." Khomeini implied that only if the U.S. tried another such rescue mission would the hostages be punished. Said he: "I warn Carter that should he resort to such foolish things, then it would be impossible for us and the government to control these Muslim, combative and heroic youth who are guarding the spies in the spy nest, that he would be responsible for their lives...