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...Some argue for Michael Jordan's final game in 1998, where in the closing seconds he stole the ball and sunk the basket that gave his team the NBA title. Others would pick the "perfect game" that Don Larsen pitched for the Yankees in the 1956 World Series. Or Secretariat's amazing 31-length victory in the 1973 Belmont Stakes. What each of these performances has in common is domination--a superb athlete taking on the best of his peers and crushing them. But for my money, no other athlete has dominated his sport in a single outing...
...impatient diva. Bought by the Japanese entrepreneur Fusao Sekiguchi for $4 million as a yearling, the prohibitive favorite enters the Derby on a four-race winning streak, including an overpowering four-length victory in the Wood Memorial April 15 at Aqueduct. Fusaichi Pegasus has been likened to Secretariat so often that the comparison has acquired the resonance of clich...
...regardless if it can be attributed to human nature, institutional memory or the status quo, we all need a break from time to time. As I sit here with a seven-page Harvard Model United Nations Secretariat application burning a hole in my desk, I remember with fondness my one non-application extracurricular activity this year--IM ice hockey. If there had been a selection process, I wouldn't have had a chance seeing as I accomplished nothing greater than falling over. But standing there on the ice, in skates that caused my ankles to turn in and gloves...
...SECRETARIAT How can a horse be influential? If in 1973 you saw the big chestnut colt win the first Triple Crown in 25 years by 31 incomprehensible lengths, and if you realized that in appearance, style and disposition he was the Platonic ideal of the athlete, you wouldn't argue the point. His influence is this: Secretariat is the standard against which every other Thoroughbred must be measured...
Thena Durham, head of the executive secretariat at the CDC, says that Satcher always had national goals in sight, even as director...