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Owens, who famously said the secret to his success was to "let my feet spend as little time on the ground as possible," helped usher in a fleet of impossibly swift African-American sprinters. Among then was Bob (Bullet) Hayes, who won the gold medal in the 100-m sprint at the 1964 Olympics in Tokyo and recorded what some observers consider the top time ever achieved by a human with an 8.6 split in the 4 x 100-m relay. (Relay marks are faster than regular sprints because runners receive the baton while in motion, enabling them to accelerate...
...next of kin ask to have a profile taken down, Facebook will comply. It will not, however, hand over a user's password to let a family member access the account, which means private messages are kept just that...
Syndicated columnist Robert Novak died this week at 78, and I already miss him. I first talked to him 25 years ago, when I was a newly hired regional political director at the Republican National Committee. Guys like me weren't even supposed to talk with reporters, let alone bigfeet like Novak. Someone told me he was calling, and so, palms sweating, I picked up the telephone and sheepishly said hello. "I hear they hired some young whippersnapper over there," he said, "and wanted to introduce myself." Then, ending the small talk, he handed down Novak Rule...
...leading a group in Restaurant Wars or any other group challenge, don't be a jerk, but be sure you make the final call--because you will suffer for your teammates' bad decisions. And if you're paired with a guest chef in your finale, don't let him or her take over (as Carla did in her heartbreaking Season 5 finale loss). It's your aspic on the line, not the guest...
...issue is that these guys get tried and be brought to justice. Let's get [them] convicted and just move on.' JIM RICHES, a retired deputy fire chief whose firefighter son died in the Sept. 11 attacks; Riches visited Gitmo this year and supports Obama's plan...