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...Outdoor season, Siilats had faded out of the NCAA picture, but Gyorffy was blowing the nation away. Her outdoor personal-best leap of 1.96 meters was the second-best jump in the world at the time. At NCAA Outdoors last Sunday, she was looking to achieve a longtime goal of clearing two meters...
...second-best jump in the world this season. The only athletes to reach such heights this year are American Amy Acuff, who also cleared 1.96 meters in Osaka, Japan last Saturday, and Russian Hestrie Storbeck-Cloete, who cleared 1.97 meters in March...
...Clever's throw buried the 13-year old Heptagonal meet record of 70.92 meters. Had Princeton's Tora Harris not delivered the second-best performance in the nation in the high jump at 2.27 meters the next day, Clever might well have been the meet's most outstanding performer...
Today, America is the most powerful nation on earth. Its economic and military clout is unrivalled. But its citizens should not rest on their laurels and settle for second-best. They must demand the very best leadership they can get. Only then can Bush prove himself worthy of some of his most esteemed forerunners. A hundred days have come and gone; the country’s attitude, as well as its president’s policies, must improve over the next...
Sophomore Amanda Shanklin finished the 400-meter intermediate hurdles in 61.84 seconds, the second-best time in the league this year to co-captain Brenda Taylor, and over a second better than the time she ran at the Penn Relays on Thursday. Taylor’s time of 56.11 seconds from Thursday was far and away the best time in the league—and the best time in the nation—this season...