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Meyer never trailed in the marathon 1000-yd freestyle, having lapped her nearest B.U. opponent just after the half-way mark. Her time of 10:19.95, barely a second off the pool record, is even more astounding since the 1000 is not Meyer's usual event...
...apparent concession, a U.S. official said Gorbachev had dropped his insistence for restrictions on Star Wars testing as a condition for cuts in strategic arsenals. Gorbachev, at a marathon news conference, skirted the question that snagged the Iceland summit last year...
...presidential campaign has come to resemble one of those marathon encounter sessions from the early 1970s, in which truth was supposed to emerge after the individual was beaten down by group pressure, exhaustion and the desperate need to have five minutes alone. Travel with any of the current contenders in a van in Iowa and New Hampshire, and you are certain to encounter half a dozen reporters working on psycho-profiles. Tape recorders at the ready, they push and prod the candidate for his formative experiences: Was your father cruel, did your mother feed you gruel, were you popular...
Dating, or even tiptoeing outside the cathedral of wedlock for a weekend tryst, isn't supposed to be deadly either. But drama is often the imagination of disaster, and horror is the escalation of primal anxieties (pregnancy, puberty, even dentistry) into touchstone fantasies (Rosemary's Baby, The Exorcist, Marathon Man). Says Fatal Attraction's screenwriter James Dearden: "I wanted to take every situation to the worst-possible-case scenario and see what happened...
After all, they're both winners. Benoit won the 1984 Olympic gold medal in the women's marathon. Grialou has been the Crimson's first finisher in four women's cross-country races this year--more than any other team member...