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Everywhere he goes, Colin Powell is besieged. Bicycle messengers in spandex tights stop him on the streets of Washington and urge him to run for President. Waiters at restaurants advise the retired general to aim for the White House. ceos quietly pledge money should Powell decide to run. Political operatives of both parties would like to ignore Powell-but can't. "I don't think about it a lot," claims a senior White House official, before admitting, "If Powell does run, he will be a significant player." Another in the White House is more fatalistic: "If he runs...
...caught these guys in Justice [Moral Reasoning 22]," said Wayne G. Marshall '98. "One was wearing a tight pink tank top with leopard print and spandex, and the other one was wearing a tank...
...Everyone knows they look nice in a navy jacket, and everyone has one," explained former contender Sam Ferrell '95. "So we all decided to leave the Spandex at home...
...Cleveland Indians are back for spring training, but last year's renegade underdogs are this season's big-time superstars. With big-time egos to match. From the first white stretch limo that appears in the baseball stadium's parking lot, complete with party babes in skimpy spandex, "Major League II" lets us know that success has corrupted the lovable bunch of ragtag Indians. In their new-found fame, the players have forgotten the humble roots that gave them their grit and winning quality. It's the dilemma posed by the American dream: how to move from rags to riches...
Last week Diann Roffe-Steinrotter could identify with that. Clad in skintight purple spandex at the starting gate of the Olympic course, the diminutive (5 ft. 4 in.) racer from Potsdam, New York, gazed down the ice- glazed slope to the distant valley below. In the Arctic chill, a kaleidoscopic blur of 40,000 snowsuits gazed back through a vast video screen. "I was sick-to-my-stomach nervous," she said. "I tried to drink water. My insides felt like California during the earthquake." But somehow as she zipped past red barns and sailed over moose and lynx paths down...