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...Guard is pleased. Stewart Iglehart, 75, a top competitor from the sport's golden age in the '20s and '30s, wrote recently that "today's ponies ... have noticeably less polish on the field"; his tone suggested that some of the riders are not too polished either. But like it or not, the sport of kings, which traces its roots back through England and India to Persia in 525 B.C., is now enjoyed by the likes of the "Bruise Brothers," a pair of upstart investment bankers who compete in Santa Barbara, Calif., and the bread-and-butter players who gather regularly...
...into the realm of patient care. Kristen's gene mutation was diagnosed in a Duke laboratory run by Andrew Futreal, a researcher who had a hand in the discovery of one breast cancer-susceptibility gene--known as BRCA1--and who co-discovered a second, BRCA2. Her doctor is Dirk Iglehart, a surgeon who also runs a large tumor biology laboratory. The genetic counselor, Shelly Clark, advises patients on the far-reaching effects of such lethal genes...
...niece also tests positive, to whom should she divulge this? Her boyfriend; her fiance? Should the young woman have a mastectomy? Should she have children, when the chances of her daughters' having it are 50%? The niece too will be tempted to lie on official forms. Clark, Iglehart, Kristen and her husband talk about all this...
...Iglehart reminds her gently that "the good news is that the survival rate with breast cancer exceeds 85%." Still, Kristen must decide: have both breasts removed; take the drug Tamoxifen, whose possible side effects include blood clots and endometrial cancer. Or, more frightening still: do nothing...
Divorced. Stewart Birrell Iglehart, 36, top U.S. polo player (ten-goal handicap); by Marjorie Le Boutillier Iglehart, 30; after eight years of marriage, one child; in Jacksonville...