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...believes swimming is entrenched in the country's culture. Strong local clubs, rather than colleges, breed promising youngsters, he says, the best of whom go to sports institutes as teenagers. Government funding also supports home-based athletes (such as Thorpe) and their coaches (such as Doug Frost, Thorpe's mentor). A benign climate, particularly in Sydney and Brisbane, offers hundreds of training venues year-round. Supportive parents who cart seven- or eight-year-olds to early-morning squad sessions help achieve great results at a younger age. "There is no country with this culture," says Touretski...
DIED. R.H. HARRIS, 84, gospel great and last surviving member of the pioneering Soul Stirrers, the first gospel group inducted into the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame; in Chicago. Harris, whom gospel historian Anthony Heilbut called "the most influential figure in soul music," was a mentor to Sam Cooke; his vocal legacy echoes in Al Greene and R. Kelly. Said Heilbut: "If you've ever been to a black church or listened to R.-and-B. music, you've heard the influence of R.H. Harris...
Sugarloaf encourages its employees to mentor, on company time, teenagers at Mount Abram High School. District career coordinator Gary Perlson, who oversees the mentoring program, attests to its effectiveness. Says he: "In the class of 2000, 30% graduated with mentors, and of those, 98% went on to the military or postsecondary education. Before we began the mentoring program three years ago, the figure for the graduating class was often as low as 45%." As the biggest business in the area, Sugarloaf has a stake in the students. Many are the children of staff members, and all are potential customers...
CONVICTED. ANWAR IBRAHIM, 53, Malaysia's deposed Deputy Prime Minister, arrested after challenging his mentor, Mahathir Mohamad, who has ruled for 19 years; of sodomy; and sentenced to nine years in prison; in Kuala Lumpur. Human-rights groups condemned the 14-month trial, in which prosecutors changed the date of the alleged crime twice after alibis were produced...
...outlining how the place should be run. Rumsfeld, impressed, brought him into the agency and, after Nixon resigned, to the Ford White House. When Rumsfeld, by then Ford's chief of staff, was tapped for Defense chief, Cheney, despite his youth, was the obvious candidate to step into his mentor's job. "Cheney had evolved into a person who was interchangeable with me," Rumsfeld recalls. "By the time it came for the President to ask me to go to the Pentagon, really, it was a five-minute decision--and the first three were for coffee...