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...proposal to the Dean [Knowles] last springwas that a guest professor be brought to Harvardfor three visiting semesters during which timewe'd look for a permanent [professor]," said KruppFoundation Professor of European Studies CharlesS. Maier, who headed the search committee...
...HERMANN MAIER Won immortality both for his two golds and for his great fall...
...Nagano would doubtless receive a silver, the color of its snowfall; almost everything Japanese was delicate and accommodating except the weather, which turned skiers on their heads when it wasn't doing the same to schedules. In the end, however, true grit prevailed: the fastest man on skis, Hermann Maier ("Other Name: Das Monster," his official bio explains), confirmed his extraterrestrial status by getting up from a horrific crash and picking up two golds in four days; his female counterpart, Katja Seizinger, returned to form by winning two golds in two days. Even little Denmark claimed its first Winter medal...
...look for them. The upper-case Games were about Wayne Gretzky's checking into the Olympic Village like an Everyman; the lower-case ones were about lesser-known athletes' rubbing shoulders with the Great One. The marquee performer in the men's downhill, when finally it was completed, Hermann Maier, stormed out of the starting gate and, at the first major jump, turned into a cartwheeling, somersaulting blur of red and orange as he crashed through two retaining fences and ended up in a snowdrift without his skis (but miraculously walked away like the tough bricklayer...
...SUNDAY Women's hockey will make its debut. And the man to watch will be Austrian Alpine skier Hermann ("Monster") Maier, who has had eight monstrous wins this season...