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...administration stuck behind Eaves—and is undoubtedly satisfied with his performance since. Wisconsin is 17-9-6 this season and is a good bet to make the NCAA tournament, while Eaves won a Gold Medal last month as head coach of Team USA at the World Junior Championships...
Usually, when scientist Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan appeared on Pakistan's state TV, it was to receive another gold medal for building the country's nuclear bomb. But last week Khan, a hero to Pakistanis and many others in the Islamic world, came on the air, ashen and visibly shaken, to confess that he had sold Pakistan's nuclear secrets to Libya, Iran and North Korea. He begged for President Pervez Musharraf's pardon--and, to the chagrin of many Western intelligence agencies that regard Khan as the world's most dangerous nuclear proliferator, it was granted the next...
DIED. ELEANOR HOLM WHALEN, 90, saucy Olympic swimming champion; in Miami. After winning the gold medal in the 100-m backstroke at the 1932 Games, she was favored to win again in 1936 in Berlin. But before the Games, she was thrown off the U.S. team for drinking and throwing dice with sportswriters. Her bad behavior, ahead of its time, propelled her to celebrity. She appeared in the movie Tarzan's Revenge and swam in Billy Rose's Aquacade at the 1939-40 World's Fair, a spectacle that landed her on the cover of TIME...
...DIED. ELEANOR HOLM WHALEN, 90, glamorous and saucy swimming star who won a gold medal in the 1932 Olympics but was kicked off the American team four years later for late-night carousing; in Miami. On the trans-Atlantic voyage to the 1936 Olympics, Holm spent an afternoon shooting dice with sportswriters and then stayed up late for "a few glasses of champagne." Her expulsion from the team made headlines, and Holm ended up writing about the Games for a wire service. She then acted in Tarzan's Revenge and performed in impresario-husband Billy Rose's Aquacade...
...also represents two of 11 Olympians on the team’s roster. Ruggiero earned a gold medal in the 1998 Olympics and a silver with Chu at the 2002 Olympics...