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They're baa-ack. After a vacation for NBC's Olympic fortnight, Jay Leno returns to The Tonight Show to find his competition with late-night rival Arsenio Hall fiercer than any jock grudge match. Consider the events. The javelin backstab. The 100-m bad-mouth. Synchronized sniping. Follyball. And -- given Leno's 33% ratings advantage over Hall -- the uneven parallel talk shows. Who needs Barcelona? These are the games of summer...
...heeded the fears of his political handlers and curtailed a planned 11-day vacation at his oceanfront mansion in Kennebunkport, Me. Instead he scheduled several new campaign trips and ordered his speechwriters to serve up tougher rhetoric for his surrogates and him. "I've been going through a little javelin catching . . . from the political opposition," Bush said Friday. "They've been dishing it out for 10 months. Let's see if they can take it." He also retaliated against at least one ungrateful Republican: word was sent to D'Amato that he could forget about any more help from...
Senior Nick Sweeney threw an impressive 172-ft. to take first in the discuss. Sweeney also won the shot put and placed in the hammer. Freshman Dan Dusek won the javelin with a 197-ft. throw. CREW RESULTS...
...Harvard's Leslie Carson said. The Crimson dominated the throwing events as Co-Captain Cathy Griffin led the way, winning the hammer throw and the discus, while coming in second in the shotput. Nicole Carkeek led the Crimson sweep of the shotput, while Stacey Caldwell's win in the javelin set the tone for another 1-2-3 Harvard finish...
...their sprinters sidelined by injuries, the men's team struggled in the running events but turned in solid performances in the field competitions. Nick Sweeney captured first in the discuss, with a throw of 83-ft. 7-in., while freshman John Toomey and junior Dean Lufkin won the javelin and the long jump, respectively...