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...invariable caution raised about allowing young players onto the professional tour is that they may be subject to premature burnout, either physical or mental. The prime examples cited are Austin, who twice won the U.S. Open before departing at 21, and Andrea Jaeger, who made the finals of the French Open and Wimbledon before packing it in at 19. Yet the counterexamples of enduring grit can be equally persuasive: Evert, who began playing at the top level at 16, kept going until her September retirement at the age of 34; her equally precocious rival, Martina Navratilova, 33, is still playing...
...service like that would be much more effective if Harvard would advertise it more thoroughly" says William Jaeger, a HUCTW organizer. University officials "want to make that service available, but at a cheap cost...
...fact, remembering broken-down prodigies like Tracy Austin and Andrea Jaeger, her father has required her to rest every year from late November to mid-January, and to the dismay of tournament promoters, has kept her schedule reasonable. "Sometimes I have to be Mr. Graf," he says. "It's no fun." But the results have been as sweet as hot raspberries. "She is a champion from within. All from within," he says. "But her extra advantage may be the circle around her -- her mother and brother too." (A practice partner, Czech Pro Pavel Slozil, takes care to coach in whispers...
...Money is money, and when it's gone, it's gone," says Richard G. Jaeger, Dartmouth's director of admissions. He says his school is not able to give out all of the aid it would like to, and, like many other colleges, has had to resort to financial aid waiting lists, though it continues to a have a need-blind admissions policy...
...Fuzzbuster have since roared onto the market. Some of the best-selling detectors are made by Cincinnati Microwave, whose latest PASSPORT edition is small enough to fit in a shirt pocket and sells for $295. Thanks to his attentive little black boxes, Cincinnati Microwave Chairman and Co-Founder James Jaeger, 38, is a multimillionaire who owns a fleet of Ferraris and says that, of course, he never gets speeding tickets...