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...Since Cejudo can pin your arms until next August, it's unwise to disagree. Plus, he's right on point. Today at China Agriculture University, Cejudo became the youngest gold medal winner in U.S. wrestling history when he dropped Japan's Tomohiro Matsunaga in the final match. The win shocked the wrestling world; Cejudo placed 31st at last year's world championships. But he upset 2006 world champ Radoslav Velikov of Bulgaria in the first round here. Cejudo was supposed to medal in 2012, maybe even '16. But not in Beijing...
...Cejudo won that gold in the second period of the 55-kg (121 lb.) final. In Olympic freestyle wrestling, the grapplers score points during 3-min. periods. The first person to win two periods wins the match. After taking the first period, Cejudo danced around the mat with Matsunaga, before executing the move of the match. "I just set him up," Cejudo explains. "I'm pretty unorthodox - I can find the leg from anywhere. That's just what happened. I didn't even see the leg, but I ended up grabbing it. And I just popped my hips, took...
...July 17, Kay Ryan became the 16th U.S. poet Laureate, one of the most coveted positions in American letters. Yet when Senator Spark Matsunaga, himself an amateur poet, pushed Congress to create the post in 1985, the American literary community was appalled. With its roots in 17th century England, where the laureate still writes occasional verses marking royal births and weddings, the title was one that few American poets rushed to adopt. "It's in the field of politics," scoffed Allen Ginsberg. With artists serving renewable eight-month terms, the U.S. "may be down to third-rate poets pretty quickly...
...next frontier, a new world to be tamed and colonized. Gathering in Washington last week for a celebration of the tenth anniversary of the Apollo-Soyuz space linkup were such luminaries as Astronomer Carl Sagan, former Moonwalker and U.S. Senator Harrison Schmitt, Astronaut Sally Ride, Hawaii Senator Spark Matsunaga and NASA Chief James Beggs. They proposed an agenda for the future as well: a joint U.S.-Soviet manned mission to Mars, which could be launched as early as 2010. In the highlight of the meeting, sponsored by the Planetary Society and the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Cosmonauts Alexei...
...first there was little hope of a Reagan reversal. When Vice President George Bush sat in for Reagan at a meeting with Democratic members of the Senate Finance Committee, Spark Matsunaga of Hawaii asked if a convalescent Reagan might be open to the idea of a tax hike. Replied Bush: "Sparky, he didn't have a lobotomy; he had a cancer operation." Reagan told a reporter who asked about the oil fee, "I'm not for any taxes." But White House aides put out the word that the President, in what could prove a major concession, would go along with...