Word: martin
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...members were not the only Harvard students with a role in the event. Harvard's own James R. Blake, Class of 2001, who was also the topranked NCAA tennis player this year, participated in a practice doubles match against tennis star Pete Sampras and his double's partner Todd Martin. Sampras and Martin won the match...
...tournament consists of a series of four rounds which occur throughout the year, in which the winner of each round advances to the next. In last weekend's second round, the U.S. team--Sampras, Martin, Jim Courier and Alex O'Brien--lost to Australia, four matches...
DIED. JAMES FARMER, 79, courageous, booming-voiced Gandhian who along with Martin Luther King Jr., Whitney Young and Roy Wilkins was one of the four great architects of the U.S. civil rights movement; in Fredericksburg, Va. Farmer's Congress of Racial Equality provided the nonviolent vanguard for the perilous sit-ins and Freedom Rides to integrate the public places and transport of the South in the 1950s and '60s. Asked by Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy to postpone some of their actions so that people could "cool off," Farmer replied, "We have been cooling off for 350 years...
...group of successful (key word, that) women going an extra step and having some fun--not to mention making some profit--with America's sexual obsession. Michael Jordan did this, certainly, in most of his advertising (save the Tweetie Bird spots). In other realms, so did Madonna and Ricky Martin--on paper, singers--and even celebs like the ever shirtless Elizabeth Wurtzel and Sebastian Junger--on paper, scribes...
...touch has been bleeding money and racking up disappointments since its launch last fall. Now its investors are threatening to hang up. A day after Motorola, which owns an 18 percent stake, said that the company might have to declare bankruptcy unless its partners chip in more money, Lockheed Martin announced Thursday it wouldn?t be upping its 1 percent investment any time soon. Iridium will miss its next interest payment to bondholders, and its bankers have given it until August 11 to come up with a new business plan. The Wall Street Journal has nicknamed the company "Icarus." What...