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...Money co-star, Paul Newman, 62, a veteran race-car driver who later took the wheel of his own 300 ZX in another division. Cruise, who described his leg of the race as being "smooth as silk," drove for the first half of the three- hour marathon before handing off to a teammate who finished 14th in a field of 42 cars. As for Newman, he came in seventh in a field of 44 contenders. Looks like the kid still has a few things to learn from Fast Eddie...
...French Canada. In April of this year, Mulroney and the provinces hammered out a delicate agreement recognizing Quebec as a "distinct society" and permitting it a larger degree of autonomy. Yet some premiers soon had qualms over the favors granted French Canadians and forced Mulroney into last week's marathon renegotiation. By sunrise, there was accord on provincial rights, and the premiers signed the constitution. "Today," said an ecstatic Mulroney, "we welcome Quebec into the constitutional family...
...marathon effort: federal investigators had sifted for three years through 45,000 documents and grilled more than 120 witnesses. But only a four- page press release was needed last week to scuttle the Justice Department's inquiry into charges that General Dynamics had falsified information in the 1970s about delivery dates and multimillion-dollar cost overruns on Trident and Los Angeles-class nuclear submarines. Citing the "absence of any reasonable prospect of a successful prosecution," the Justice Department dropped its investigation into the actions of employees of the firm, including then Chairman David Lewis, 69. Said Deputy Assistant Attorney General...
...days a year, 12 to 15 hours a day, she trains her dogs. Butcher and Monson race five to 10 teams a day, building up the dogs' endurance like marathon runners until they can run 26-30 miles. "Then I can go anywhere with them," she says. "This is our basketball team, we have to pick our players, then we have to condition them physically...there is little for anything else...
Some things never change, and the Bruins left Palmer Dixon Courts following a marathon seven-hour match with loss number...