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...game was taking a toll on Rather. Once the top-ranked network anchor, Rather spent most of the summer stuck in third place, behind NBC's Tom Brokaw and ABC's Peter Jennings. But Rather may soon have reason to smile again: in trial runs of the new "people meter" rating system, which made its official debut last week, the CBS Evening News with Dan Rather finished in first place. No details, however, about how those six minutes of CBS Evening News Without Dan Rather fared...
...Washington Post has detected a feeling in Canada that Sprinter Ben Johnson's recent world-record triumph over Carl Lewis in the 100-meter dash ran deeper than a foot race. Some Canadians see national reflections in the downtrodden stammerer Johnson and the American peacock he dusted at the World Games in Rome. "Lewis was pretty and polished in his U.S. national colors," reported the Toronto Globe and Mail. "Johnson was plainly attired in his baggy suit." Anyway, the World's Fastest Human is now a Jamaican Canadian...
...Everybody's been really motivated in the drills," said Harvard Tri-Captain Ben Elizondo. "We were doing drills when the two-meter man gets a ball, hands it off to a driver and he puts it in the goal. Yesterday it was going real quick, one right after the other. The two-meter man kept asking for more balls. It's an example of the camaraderie here...
Suriname won its first gold medal ever at the pool. Anthony Nesty's record swim in the 100-meter butterfly brought out a bright national banner with the wonderful slogan A DIRT WAGON CARRIES DIRT, BUT IT DOES NOT CARRY SHAME. There were old names too. Saving her heptathlon for the coming world championships in Rome, the regal Jackie Joyner-Kersee focused on the long jump and equaled East German Heike Drechsler's 24-ft. 5 1/2-in. world mark. With Carl Lewis standing by for his own turn at the long jump and Greg Louganis still perched on his diving...
...village the other day," Louganis said, "and I heard someone mention, 'Five to a room, ten to a bathroom,' I thought: 'Why am I still doing this?' " But the answer came to him even before he became the first three-time Pan Am champion of the three-meter springboard. "I still have goals, tremendous goals." At the diving nationals in April, Louganis tasted second place for the first time in a while. "But second place isn't losing," he said. "If I learn something from a competition, I can be second to last and still come out a winner...