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...Bostonian named Thomas Burke, who after winning the final in 12.0 sec. went on to become a lawyer and a journalist; he was also the official starter for the first Boston Marathon in 1897. Americans have long dominated the event, winning 14 of 22 Olympic 100s, finishing one-two seven times and sweeping the medals twice. Interestingly enough, three of the first seven winners acquired law degrees, including Abrahams, the Brit whose 1924 race against anti-Semitism was chronicled in the film Chariots of Fire...
SYNCHRONIZED The solo and duet events, held since 1984, have been dropped in favor of a team event for women. Canadians or Americans finished one-two in all previous competitions, and that won't change...
...danger of becoming ruinously expensive. So Congress started a second student-loan program, in which the recipients pay interest even during their school years. This program, rolled out in 1992, now has 2 million borrowers and a loan volume of $7.6 billion. The effect has been that of a one-two punch: as tuitions and fees have risen, so has the cost to the borrower of a student loan. Loan interest adds a few hundred dollars a year to the cost of a college education...
...contrast, Penn brings the league's second-most productive offense into Cambridge. The Quakers average 68.8 points per game, due in no small part to forward Ira Bowman (16.3 ppg) and Ivy League Player of the Week Tim Krug (15.5 ppg). The one-two punch has prolonged Penn's league winning streak to 48 straight games...
...Crimson took the lead early yesterday against the Bears, and lost it only for a moment when it trailed Brown 115-14 after the 500-meter freestyle. But Caroline Miller's (57.80 seconds) and sophomore Mary Naber's (58.16) one-two finish in the 100-meter butterfly put Harvard up for good...