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Calumet Farm's Twilight Tear was Horse of the Year in 1944, but she too was held out of the Triple Crown races as a three-year-old. She went on to beat colts in handicap races later that year. Now, for the first time in 65 years, a filly has beaten the colts in one of the spring classics of the Triple Crown...
They speak with many accents but the message is the same, forceful and unrelenting in its demand for a homeland and desire for redress. Despite the handicap of being a people without a state, exiles scattered throughout the Middle East and even beyond, Palestinians as individuals have uncommonly excelled in the arts and literature, in business and the professions. Their political views vary, as do their opinions on the best way to achieve their goal of an independent state. But as a people they have managed to forge a special bond of community, rooted in an obsessive longing...
...Smith College, though she insists, "I never wanted to be a doctor. I just liked the basic science curriculum." A staff writer for a physicians' newspaper before joining TIME in 1978, she has been practicing medical journalism for ten years, despite what she describes as a nagging professional handicap: her first name. "My friends and contacts at hospitals and research facilities sometimes fail to return phone calls," she laments. "They don't want to talk to the Anesthesia Department...
...laxwomen grabbed a 3-0 lead in the first half as Jenny White, one of the seven freshmen who made this year's varsity, proved that youth is no handicap as she scored the contest's first goal...
...bitter end. Thus New Hampshire television viewers on Sunday and Monday saw pictures of Bush resting beside his Texas swimming pool while Reagan was doggedly plowing through chilled New Hampshire crowds?an odd contrast for a campaign in which Reagan's age was supposed to be a major handicap. Heavy stress was placed on the brutal daily pummeling Bush took in the Manchester Union Leader, New Hampshire's only statewide paper?though Publisher William Loeb has berated other candidates in other primaries with limited consequences...