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...race climaxed a year of hurt, bitterness and self-examination for both runners. Immediately after their Los Angeles mishap, Budd had approached Decker, her childhood idol, to apologize, but the frustrated U.S. star dismissed her with a curt "Don't bother." For Budd, the waiflike wonder whose shoeless style and record-smashing times had drawn worldwide attention in the months before the Summer Games, the accident was a traumatic blow to an already turbulent career. She had come under fire for obtaining last-minute British citizenship in order to race in the Olympics and evade the antiapartheid ban on South...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Way It Might Have Been | 4/12/2005 | See Source »

Kris Benson, meanwhile, established himself this winter as one of the most overpaid pitchers in recent memory, but the Mets can be excused one mishap. Benson is about as average as pitchers can be, sporting a career record of 47-53 and an ERA of 4.28, slightly better than the NL average of 4.41 over that span. He didn’t deserve $22.5 million, but will still help the club...

Author: By Stewart H. Hauser, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: THE STEWDIO: Big Apple Teams Still Rich, Rotten | 1/12/2005 | See Source »

Nevertheless, the three Baudelaire orphans in Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events manage to endure; using their courage and ingenuity, they survive every mishap in the “series of unfortunate events” that comes their way. The children are constantly pursued by Count Olaf (Jim Carrey), the crafty villain who dons multiple disguises and comes up with outrageous plans to kill the Baudelaires, hoping to inherit their massive family fortune...

Author: By Deborah Pan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Movie Review - Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events | 12/17/2004 | See Source »

Despite the mishap, respect for the Harvard name has propelled “Love Story in Harvard” to its success among education-minded Koreans...

Author: By Nina M. Catalano, CONTRIBUTING STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard TV Show Popular in Korea | 12/13/2004 | See Source »

...Americans made more than 50,000 trips to a hospital or doctor's office for a luggage-related mishap in 2003. This year, the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons, whose members see a lot of travelers on their examining tables, has for the first time issued guidelines for safely toting all that baggage. Among the tips...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shrink That Suitcase! | 11/29/2004 | See Source »

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