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...about Dan Marino or John Elway? Likewise, they can take that pigskin and throw it with precision and throw it fast, in addition to being able to heave it over 60 yards...
...teams are made up of a country's best players. Some may play professionally in a league on a foreign continent, but they play for their national teams in World Cup games. In December 1991, 143 nations signed up to compete in the qualifying rounds; even Vanuatu and San Marino, plus a few curious geopolitical subdivisions like the Faroe Islands, entered. It took two years and 491 matches to whittle the field down to two dozen, and these finalists will play 52 games in nine cities in the U.S. By the time the championship is won in the Rose Bowl...
...rhythmic requiem for the hero who lay within, one of Brazil's greatest heroes and among the fastest men on wheels on earth -- Ayrton Senna da Silva, dead at 34, killed in a Formula One crash at the San Marino Grand Prix in Imola, Italy. In his 10 years of Grand Prix competition, the Brazilian had won 41 races and three world championships. Senna would be mourned officially for three days, declared President Itamar Franco. On the flight home from Europe, Senna's coffin, curtained off in the business-class section, had already become a shrine as passengers came...
...anger. Though Senna himself was famously fatalistic about his participation in a sport in which speeds of more than 180 m.p.h. are not uncommon, there were those who thought he had died needlessly. No one had been killed in a Formula One race for 12 years, yet at San Marino alone there were five accidents and two deaths. The day before Senna missed a turn and drove his Williams-Renault into a concrete wall, Austrian rookie Roland Ratzenberger had perished in a similar accident during qualifying trials...
...early January, the first signs of trouble were unmistakable. Two of the kiosks had quietly shut down, replaced by kiosks advertising the entrepreneurial possibilities the Shops offer. Many of the rest were complaining of slow business and not enough Harvard-sponsored publicity. Marino's--the Italian restaurant that opened several weeks late on the Mt. Auburn St. side of the mall--was causing problems at the University Health Services with the smoke from its woodburning grill...