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...playing soccer as a six-year-old in Westfield, N.J., following in the footsteps of his older brother. In high school, he earned All-state honors for two years and was an All-American his senior year. Wojcik's college accolades include All-Ivy honors as a freshman and runner-up honors for Rookie of the Year...
...some ambitious young woman--one of the 50,000 who try out each year--will realize the gossamer dream that last year enveloped Heather Whitestone, the first deaf Miss America. But in the months leading to that night, the pageant has been slapped with unseemly controversy. A Miss Maryland runner-up charges she was denied her state title because of vote rigging--and attorney Alan Dershowitz is helping press her case. Other state runners-up are vexed because a woman who had lost the Miss New Jersey competition four times decamped to Delaware and won the title there. The Virginia...
Senator Phil Gramm, for instance, expects to be a strong runner-up in Iowa and New Hampshire but to break away in the Sunshine State. "We've got to win Florida,'' says Senator Gramm's top strategist, Charles Black. Gramm's aides are meeting methodically with all 150 Republican clubs in the state; Dole's aides are setting up steering committees in every one of the state's 67 counties. Part of what motivates this courtship is that Florida's Republican convention in November will hold the largest straw poll, just over two months before any voting takes place...
Among the best known Harvard names is Baker Professor of Economics Martin S. Feldstein '61, who was a close runner-up in the search for the Harvard presidency a few year ago. During Ronald Reagan's first term, Feldstein chaired the Council of Economic Advisors and got into several publicized battles with other members of the administration over the dangers of the growing deficit. The hundreds of undergraduates who take Feldstein's "Ec 10," usually the largest course at Harvard, will get a detailed explanation of why Marty was right, as well as a presentation of the basics of micro...
...proud of our team--we all are," freshman catcher Kara Hartl said. "We got the runner-up in the ECAC, and this is from a team who wasn't expected to do much of any thing [this season...