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Dragomirescu dropped a tough, 7-5, 6-3 loss to Sloan, the number-one player in the East, while Niki Rival fell in straight sets to Stephanie Heidmann...
Nearly 5 million goats trample the Greek countryside, munching on leaves and nibbling at seedlings. While countries such as Bulgaria and Yugoslavia have banned goat raising to protect their forests, Greeks apparently prize the animals much too highly to contemplate life without them. Says Niki Goulandris, a museum curator in Athens who has mounted an exhibit about the damage done by the gluttonous grazers: "Greeks must eat their goats before the goats eat their forests." To that, most Greeks would respond with a vigorous...
...white student walking down the hall of her dormitory at Wheaton College found a noose hanging near the door of a black dormmate three weeks ago. It was the sixth apparently racist incident to occur at the college in the last two years, said Dean of Students Niki Janus last week...
After playing the dying young ballerina Niki in last year's cinema flop Six Weeks, Katherine Healy, 14, might have been hesitant about dancing again in public. Not a bit of it. The New York City native was back on her toes most recently at the celebrated International Ballet Competition in Varna, Bulgaria, where she became only the second U.S.-born gold medalist. The first, in 1974, was Fernando Bujones, 28, who is now an established American Ballet Theater star. Healy has been rumored to be interested in A.B.T. too, but she says it is premature to make...
According to former associate athlete director Niki Janus, the Athletic. Department decided in 1979 to ask some of the women leading cheers at basketball games to perform at football games as well. "All this was at the instigation of a few graduates," said Janus. "They wondered why Harvard was the only Ivy school without cheerleaders and thought it world be nice to revive a little school spirit "So, aimed with megaphones, pom poms, and a few hundred dollars from the University, the cheerleaders took Soldiers Field by storm-or almost. "It was pretty embarassing at first," remembers one veteran...