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...campaign, 34 months before election is too early for a formal announcement of candidacy. But it is not too soon to bow out of an intervening race that would at best be a distraction and at worst a danger. So Gary Hart, 49, widely regarded as the early front runner for the 1988 Democratic presidential nomination--at least since the withdrawal last month of Ted Kennedy--took that inevitable first step. On Saturday he announced that he will not run to retain his U.S. Senate seat from Colorado...
Even Payton, the teddy bear whose cloying nickname is "Sweetness," counts himself among the brutes. When Payton passed Jim Brown last season to become the leading rusher in league history (14,860 yds. to date), Brown gave him a blessing that the proud Cleveland runner would have withheld from Pittsburgh's Franco Harris. "Payton is a gladiator," he said. "Walter follows the code." Brown was a better runner; so was Sayers. But for running, blocking, throwing passes and catching them, Payton is all-around the most productive football player of the two-platoon era. "For most of his career, teams...
Solar radiation does funny things to the brain. It was in summers past that we fell for the Macarena as party starter, Regis Philbin as fashion icon and Howard Dean as Democratic front runner. If you need further proof that the ozone layer is thinning, look to the summer TV season of 2005, in which ABC got 15 million rapt Americans to watch Dancing with the Stars, the most proudly bizarre song-and-dance show since Pink Lady and Jeff...
Harvard began a week of ICSA championship regattas by winning the ICSA women’s dinghy championships in Austin, Tex., by a score of 160 to runner-up College of Charleston?...
First, against eventual Red Rolfe runner-up Brown, Morgalis pitched deep into the eighth inning, surrendering only two earned runs to the league’s surprise powerhouse...