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Cambridge: rowing's Mecca. Home of the powerful Harvard and Radcliffe crews and many of the country's finest individual scullers...
...reputation rests chiefly on works of the past few years, A Lesson from Aloes (1978), Master Harold . . . and the Boys (1982) and The Road to Mecca (1984), and on two remarkable collaborations with actors, Sizwe Bansi Is Dead and The Island (both 1972). But Fugard, 53, found a mature voice almost from the moment he began, as the Yale Repertory Theater demonstrated last week in what it billed as a "25th anniversary" revival of his first international success, The Blood Knot. The play, which Fugard started writing in 1960 and performed in 1961, is the story of two mixed-race...
...mixer is the first opportunity for Harvard's notoriously diverse student body to check each other out in action. The results can sometimes be disappointing, especially to those who harbored the misconception of Harvard as Society Mecca on the Charles...
...Muslim, Babangida waited to make his move until the religious holiday of Id al-Kabir, when Buhari returned to his native town of Daura in Kaduna state, and Idiagbon was on the hajj to Mecca. In July, Babangida had made a visit to army troops around the country, during which he is said to have gathered support for the takeover. Some Western diplomats believe that Babangida's ability to hold on to power depends on his success in turning around the Nigerian economy. Whatever his plans, he knows he must act quickly and | decisively. He has only to look...
...naturally as he wanted to improve muscle tone or increase the weights he lifted, he wanted to come to the U.S., particularly California, the mecca of body building. Son of a policeman in Braz, Austria, Schwarzenegger moved to Los Angeles at 21, one year after winning his first Mr. Universe title in 1967. He was Mr. Universe again from 1968 to 1970 and took seven Mr. Olympia titles (1970-75, 1980). He has given up professional body building to pursue his interests in video and real estate (he holds a B.A. in business administration from the University of Wisconsin...