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Marathon fans were surprised when Salazar burst into the limelight last October, fulfilling his prediction by shattering the world record at the New York Marathon--a record that had stood for 12 years...
Noguchi's political overseers have always bridled at the way he seems to bask in the strange, refracted limelight of dead Hollywood celebrities. In fact, Noguchi, 55, was fired once before-13 years ago this week-only to be reinstated by a civil service commission; he may again triumph judicially, but this time the case against him is more scrupulous and substantive. The most shocking charge in 1969-that he was "smiling and dancing" with glee at the prospect of performing the historic autopsy on Robert Kennedy-was never corroborated. The county board muzzled him in January because...
Democracy and Distrust did more for Ely than thrust him into the legal limelight. It also prompted Stanford Law School in December to appoint the 42-year-old Ely its next dean. His recent scholastic credentials, in fact, were so overpowering that the vote of Stanford's appointments committee was unanimous--almost unheard of in a field as sharply divided intellectually as constitutional...
...Simon grabbed most of the Eastern's limelight. Harvard junior Shelby Calvert shone in a few events of her own. She stroked to tentative national qualifying times in both the 500-yard freestyle and the 200-yard backstroke, and anchored the Crimson's 800-yard freestyle relay team to third place...
...NOTEBOOK Congratulations are in order for Crimson netminder Cheryl Tate for her outstanding performance last night, nabbing the limelight from B.U.'s standout goalie Kudos are also appropriate for the stalwart Harvard fans who out cheered the Terrier section throughout the contest...