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...opening-round race with Cambridge in the Ladies’ Challenge Plate event and lost by five boat lengths on Friday, July 1. In the furious first strokes of the start, five-seat Griffin Schroeder ‘05’s seat jammed, preventing him from reaching full slide and forcing him to stop briefly as the boat worked up to speed...
Four-year-old Kevin White of Richmond, Calif., is enjoying that all-American event, a birthday party at McDonald's. Wearing a Ronald McDonald birthday hat and clutching a fistful of French fries, he gets ready to whisk down the slide in the restaurant's kiddy playground, while his mother Cynthia stands by with envy. "One day I hope that Kevin will appreciate my cooking," she says. "But for now, I can't even compete with a Big Mac and fries...
Palm Springs itself, not to be left out, is planning a water-slide entertainment park and building a six-story Pierre Cardin hotel called Maxims. Next to it is a block- long string of fashion shops featuring Saks and I. Magnin. But the action now centers in what Palm Springs old-timers disparage as "down valley," where newcomers find no reason to leave their walled compounds and new shopping malls to drive into the "old town." Their lives revolve around the booming clubs. They spend their days on the fairways and their evenings at cocktail bashes, black-tie charity balls...
...year ABC veteran, Pierce became president in 1983. Though he ran the network during the 1970s when it climbed to first place in the prime-time ratings race, Pierce also presided over ABC's recent slump to third place. In an effort to reverse that slide, Pierce last November appointed Brandon Stoddard, who headed the company's motion-picture operations, president of ABC Entertainment. He is expected to keep that post...
Consider, first, the title. The dancing is done by professional hoofers partnered with hastily prepped celebrities, some of whom would be just about qualified to do the Electric Slide at a Bar Mitzvah. The stars include a Rod Stewart ex (Rachel Hunter), a soap actress (Kelly Monaco) and that J. Peterman guy from Seinfeld (John O'Hurley). The only part of Dancing with the Stars that should not be set in air quotes is "with...