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...star in your own feature film. Irina, the wife of Belorussian Vitali Scherbo, who won six gold medals in the '92 Games, slammed into a telephone pole on her way to the hairdresser last December, splitting her BMW in two and winding up in a coma. Her husband quit training for months to keep vigil at her bedside, washing her hair, cutting her finger- and toenails. But as soon as Irina was on the mend, she insisted that Vitali return to pursuing his dream. In this year's Games, his team finished out of the money...
...called Freemen compound has been quietly put up for sale by the federal Farm Service Agency. Ralph Clark's 960-acre home, which he called Justus Township, was the site of the 81-day standoff that ended June 13. Clark, whose father acquired the property in 1926, quit making payments on his federal farm loans in 1982. Debt and interest on the place swelled to $2.5 million. Asking price for the Freemen headquarters: $150,000. But bargain-hunting land barons and roadside-attraction speculators can forget it: only "beginning farmers/ranchers" are eligible to apply for the screening process, the buyer...
...today is much stronger financially than Pan Am was post-Lockerbie. Pan Am quit the skies during an industry-wide recession. By contrast, U.S. airlines are in the second year of a recovery, and Erickson said last week that TWA was in "the best financial condition in a decade." He contended that TWA's summer bookings had not been affected by the tragedy. One fiscal casualty: the airline was forced to postpone an 8 million-share offering last week. Before the disaster, Erickson noted that "we like to think of ourselves as a 72-year-old start-up. The trick...
...Errors to "The Patty Duke Show" to "Parent Trap." But the technology in "Multiplicity" is seamless, and Keaton does a good job of giving each of his xeroxes a distinct (if somewhat stereotyped) personality. There's the first, harried Doug, who loses serious likeability points for suggesting his wife quit her new job because even with two of him, he can't handle taking care of the kids. The second Doug, who takes over the construction job, becomes macho and tough. The third Doug is a sensitive, caring type who is worried about his inner child and obsessive about...
...Hall is, as the song lyrics imply, that he does not try hard enough. His coach, the former Olympian Troy Dalbey, quit six weeks ago, complaining that Hall was training lackadaisically. Last month at a meet in Santa Clara, California, Hall placed 14th in the 50-m freestyle and 41st in the 100 m. His performance was a far cry from his explosive showing at the U.S. Olympic trials in March, when he qualified for the 50-m and 100-m freestyles, and the 4x100-m freestyle and medley relays...