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Jill Bakken and Vonetta Flowers knew they were just "the other team" in women's bobsled. How could they compete for headlines against the tawdry tales spinning around the pilot of the USA 1 sled, Jean Racine? Racine gave us betrayal, arbitration, injury, anger, death and even court dates in the family. She appeared in Olympic-themed ads for Visa and NBC. Bakken and Flowers didn't even have an agent...
...Bakken's bake-off also had a third contestant: Gea Johnson, a newcomer to the U.S. bobsled team who was posting incredible start times with Warner. When Johnson won the push-off, Racine decided to act, and, as America's top gun pilot, laid claim to the top gun grunt. She told her partner and best friend, Jen Davidson, that she was out and Johnson was in. (Racine had reassured Davidson that their slowing times would not affect their partnership.) Warner lost the push athlete she wanted, and failed to perform up to speed at trials. Davidson took the matter...
...officer investigated a small plane circling Harvard Yard and discovered that the pilot was authorized to take aerial photographs of the area...
BRITAIN No Smoking Gun The case against the first person to be accused of involvement in the Sept. 11 attacks appeared to collapse when a British judge found insufficient evidence to detain Lotfi Raissi on charges of terrorism. The Algerian-born pilot walked free on $14,200 bail after lawyers said the FBI had failed to supply direct evidence that he had trained the Sept. 11 hijackers. Raissi, who spent five months behind bars, still faces extradition to the U.S. on charges of making false statements when applying for a pilot's license...
...pilot program Cabot House students will be able to comprehensively evaluate the quality of residential tutors through an anonymous on-line survey that began Friday...