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The demands are never ending, the sacrifices outrageous. Relentless workouts, a life lived in sweat. For what? A Greek traveler named Pausanias more than 1,800 years ago wrote of the "unique divinity" that cloaks the Olympics. The mystery may never be phrased better. The lure persists, transfixing competitors, enticing...
She doesn't weigh much more than a long drink of water, but even that is something of a victory. "I'm 5 ft. 5 in., and 105 now. Yay!" laughs 16-year- old Freestyler Janet Evans. When she nearly made the 1986 World Championship team at 14, she stood...
The Zamboni machine could have done a couple of laps around the field. The Green Bay Packers could have held a scrimmage. The players would have been better off playing with electric blankets under their uniforms.
"We feel Harvard could have been a little more forthcoming instead of dropping it in our laps like this," said Melissa T. Chase, a tenant of the 52-unit apartment house at 18-20 Ware Street.
The first image to greet the eye is perhaps the last to linger in the mind: it is the set, vertiginously toppling outward as if to plunge a collapsing world and its demented inhabitants into the audience's laps. The place depicted must have been a palace once. Now the...