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Sheik Mohammad Al Fassi, 27, a Saudi Arabian princeling who has lived in the U.S. for four years, keeps stumbling into the limelight. When he Lived in Beverly Hills, Calif., he had the nude statuary outside his mansion painted in rather vivid flesh tones; the mansion was later gutted by fire. Then he dropped a few million here (some of it to shed two troublesome wives) and a few million there (to resettle in Florida). Last week the sheik's profligacy earned him a new bit of screwball notoriety. The Diplomat Hotel in Hollywood, Fla., claimed that Fassi...
...secretive construction giant enters the limelight...
Despite this distinction, Schools has managed to keep a low profile within the Harvard community. Some might consider it for misfortune to pilot both the volleyball and softball team--two of the teasing least publicized squads--but Schoofs has always been content to remain away from the limelight...
Most people remember when Harvard received national attention for in campus process and disturbances in the late 1960s and early 1970s, but few realize that at the same time Harvard athletics were in the national limelight...
Living in land of souring fit trees and grey, rainy days, it's nice to have some occasion to put your home town in the limelight for a couple of days. That's port of what sports is all about--the heroes that impure people to get together behind them...