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After Canadian officials were notified that he had tested positive for the anabolic steroid stanozolol, a substance that is supposed to help build lean muscle mass, they hustled the Jamaican-born sprinter out of Olympic Village, the cockpit of his glory, and checked him into a Seoul hotel under an ignominious pseudonym. There, at 3:30 a.m. on Tuesday, Carol Anne Letheren, chef de mission of the Canadian delegation, stripped Johnson of the medal he had already given to his mother. "He was in a state of shock," said Letheren. "He still did not comprehend the situation." A few hours...
Linebackers: Mitch Lee is lean and mean. A junior, he already has plenty of playing experience. (Lee was ferocious in Cornell's victory over Harvard last year.) He leads the team in tackles with 49. Linebacking mate Mike McGrann, a Red tri-captain, was All-Ivy last year. Senior Len Tokish is the other Red linebacker...
...really happening, get in touch with Michael Stewartt, the chief pilot, troublemaker, idea man and fund raiser of an extraordinary environmental flying service called Project Lighthawk. Just now a couple of local environmentalists, a journalist and Stewartt are aboard one of Lighthawk's two Cessna 210s. Stewartt, a lean, relaxed fellow of 38, with a bushy light brown mustache and hair to match, radios his plane's identification to the control tower at Seattle's Boeing Field...
...huge corporation like a family firm because he and his relatives own half its shares. And that is not going to change anytime soon. News Corp. has issued very few new shares since 1954. Besides, with no more than 40 corporate staffers, News Corp. is so lean that Murdoch can strike his targets quickly. He and Annenberg first talked about a deal over lunch at the Triangle publisher's home on July 9; they announced their agreement less than four weeks later...
Fortunately for the dignity of fans, every publishing season brings along at least a few items of sufficient literary merit or sheer entertainment value to make a mystery addiction seem respectable. This year's leading entries come from two old hands at humor, one regaining his form after several lean years, the other moving on to complex sociological terrain. Also affording special pleasure are a Sherlockian pastiche from an elder statesman, the eagerly awaited return of two detectives whose creator prefers plumbing the darkest of psyches, a couple of hard-boiled escapades centered on the trade in illegal immigrants...