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...pole vault, Ukrainian Sergei Bubka, 32, has ranked No. 1 for 11 of the past 13 years, and should be able to beat back a challenge from youngster Okkert Brits of South Africa, 23, and Russia's 1992 Olympic champion Maksim Tarasov, 25. Cuban high jumper Javier Sotomayor, 28, the only man ever to clear 8 ft., is a solid favorite if his knee holds up; British triple jumper Jonathan Edwards, 30, is the first man to hop, skip and jump 60 ft.; and Czech javelin thrower Jan Zelezny, 30, had 21 of last year's 22 longest throws. Barring...
...That was what both sides accomplished by the work stoppage, which officially ended at 11:59 p.m. on April Fools' Day, when the owners decided to tell their replacement players to stand down. The previous day, the Players Association had scored a major victory when U.S. District Judge Sonia Sotomayor issued an injunction sought by the National Labor Relations Board, forcing the owners to return to the work rules of the expired collective-bargaining agreement. So baseball was right back where it started last August, with the same old system in place and no sign of a new agreement...
...Chris M. Sotomayor '96, RAZA's representativeto the Harvard Foundation for InterculturalAffairs and Race Relations Academic AffairsCommittee, said the book is not damaging. "The oneproblem I have is that Navarrette seems tointernalize his problems, he keeps wondering if hegot in because of his race. No one gets in becauseof their race; they only accept us when they areconfident that we can do the work," Sotomayorsaid...
...Sotomayor said other members of RAZA may feeldifferently. The club has been discussing whethermembers should buy the book, he said, because theymay not want to contribute to Navarrettesroyalties...
...triple jump and the 2-hr. marathon, the benchmark most likely to fall in Seoul is the 8-ft. high jump. Sweden's Patrik Sjoberg and West Germany's Carlo Thranhardt shared a world record of 7 ft. 11 1/4 in. until last week, when Cuba's Javier Sotomayor soared 7 ft. 11 1/2 in. in Spain. At least three other jumpers, West German Dietmar Mogenburg and Soviets Igor Paklin and Gennadi Avdeyenko, are potential Olympic eight-footers. Sotomayor is among the boycotters...