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Over 700 students (nearly half of the first-year class) took advantage of the Council-provided gate-to-door trolley service and fully-catered Formal in the four-star Boston Park Plaza Hotel Grand Ballroom. While only three names appeared on the resolution authorizing this event, it was the combined commitment of all first-year Council members that made the event the success that...
...Marshall herself appears to have made some efforts to reach out to guards. After Yard security guard Steven Thompson, who was one of those charging discrimination, asked Marshall for a heater for the Johnston Gate guard shack recently, the general counsel arranged for one the next...
Last week Diann Roffe-Steinrotter could identify with that. Clad in skintight purple spandex at the starting gate of the Olympic course, the diminutive (5 ft. 4 in.) racer from Potsdam, New York, gazed down the ice- glazed slope to the distant valley below. In the Arctic chill, a kaleidoscopic blur of 40,000 snowsuits gazed back through a vast video screen. "I was sick-to-my-stomach nervous," she said. "I tried to drink water. My insides felt like California during the earthquake." But somehow as she zipped past red barns and sailed over moose and lynx paths down...
...bounced up and down to keep warm -- and to keep time with the weirdly appropriate golden oldies blasting from loudspeakers. One tune, Achy Breaky Heart, seemed a dirge for the brilliant career of Swiss veteran Franz Heinzer, whose bindings snapped as he leaped out of the downhill's starting gate. Heinzer whacked the snow with his poles in fury and three days later announced his retirement...
...madcap Italian slalomer, is a household name beyond the Alps. But Moe, 24, and Aamodt, 23, seem poised to become the Jean-Claude Killys of the '90s: glamorous derring-doers capable of focusing world attention on the Alpine sport. Moe, so easygoing that he was yawning at the starting gate of both races, has an outdoorsy charm that could earn him as much as $1 million a year in corporate-endorsement contracts, according to industry insiders. "He is already capturing the hearts and minds of the American public," says Jon Franklin, a vice president of the International Management Group, which...