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BOSTON: Move over, Rosie Ruiz. A married couple who finished in near-record time in the senior category of this year's Boston Marathon had their titles yanked when The Boston Athletic Association could not find a trace of them on key videotapes of the race. Race officials grew suspicious when John Murphy, 61, and Suzanne Murphy, 59, ran much faster than they had in the past. Studying the tapes, race officials found that while the couple did register at three computer checkpoints along the course, they did not show on videos shot at secret locations. "Following an intensive review...
...Jones industrial average closed at a near-record 5,641.69, up 11.92. Declining issues narrowly lead advancers on the New York Stock Exchange on a heavy volume of 425.74 million shares as of 4 pm. The S & P's 500 index rose 1.65 to 653.65, while the Nasdaq rose 1.30 to 1,093.12. In London, gold finished...
...selling frenzy. Declining issues led advances by four to one on a heavy volume of 426.23 million shares as of 4 p.m. EST, despite a one-hour opening delay in trading due to computer problems that stock market officials have yet to fully explain. With the Dow at near-record highs this month, the slide represented only a two percent decline in the industrial average. But today's trading wiped out most of the gains made in December and created new worries that for the Dow, up 32 percent on the year, the 1995 rally might be faltering. Hit especially...
...Forrest Gump," the box office Goliath in which Tom Hanks' optimistic simpleton bobs along through history, grabbed a near-record 13 Academy Award nominations, including best picture, best actor (Hanks), best director (Robert Zemeckis) and best supporting actor (Gary Sinise). The sweep was one shy of the record: 14 for "All About Eve" in 1950. The next-closest films -- "Pulp Fiction," "Bullets Over Broadway" and "The Shawshank Redemption" -- had seven nominations apiece. The other best picture nominees were "Pulp Fiction," "The Shawshank Redemption," "The Quiz Show" and "Four Weddings and a Funeral." TIME Los Angeles correspondent Jeffrey Ressner says...
...near-record number of teams attended this weekend's Parliamentary Debate Tournament at Harvard, as a duo from Yale topped a field of 178 to win the inter-collegiate championship...