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...Occoquan River in Woodbridge, Va., Igor Grinko, a former Soviet rowing coach who now trains the U.S. team, has had American Keir Pearson doing 400 pulls on the oars with 200-lb. weights attached. "When we slack off," says Pearson, "Igor screams at us that Russian women can lift more weight than we can." Says Jonathan Smith, 31, a two-time Olympic medalist who is pushing for a third prize this summer: "The volume and amount of weight we're lifting is two to three times more than I did before...
Even before it meets, the convention is stirring nostalgic memories of 1976, when the Democrats met in New York to nominate another Southern Governor, Jimmy Carter, who went on to win, while the city, still on the brink of bankruptcy, got a huge lift in morale out of its successful performance as host. As some New Yorkers might phrase it in the native tongue, they should both be so lucky twice. (See related stories beginning on page...
Frustrated by the International Whaling Commission's reluctance to lift a six- year-old ban on hunting minke whales they say have since become sufficiently plentiful, Iceland has quit the IWC and Norway is defiant. Environmentalists fear that could lead to hunting other, more endangered whales...
...spring of 1990 the Faculty of Arts andSciences issued an ultimatum. If the military didnot lift ban on gays and lesbians within two yearsthe Harvard the faculty would sever all ties withROTC...
Another factor influencing the debate may bethe presidential election. Democrat Bill Clintonhas promised to lift the ban on gays and lesbiansin the armed forces. A Clinton victory in Novembercould drastically alter the faculty's debate...