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Beukema finished in 30th place in the one-meter springboard diving competition. He still has two more events left--the three-meter board today and the platform tomorrow...
...kind of moneyspinner. "Traders were made overnight," says Valerie Thompson, who traded securities for Solomon Brothers in London for 15 years and watched the change. "Managers did not have time to train them properly. Leeson picked up a little bit of knowledge and used it as a springboard into Barings. He must have thought, 'This is easy. This is Christmas come early. I can do anything...
...minority students have succeeded, using the springboard of education to charge into the job market. Affirmative action in the job market will level the playing field for these new career-seekers until enough of them have succeeded to render it obsolete...
...autobiography, Breaking the Surface (Random House; $23), Louganis revealed that he was hiv-positive when he competed in Seoul and that he now has AIDS. Imagine the uproar then-it was cacophonous enough last week-over the cut Louganis received when he hit his head on the springboard during the preliminaries. Carrying his teddy bear with a matching bandage to and from the pool might not have played quite so well, or assuaged the AIDS paranoia of the time...
...dabbled in drugs and even attempted suicide. He left the hard-nosed Lee for the gentler O'Brien, who somehow kept Louganis focused through all the fallow non-Olympic years that stretched between Montreal and Los Angeles. (The U.S. boycotted the 1980 Games.) In 1984 Louganis won both the springboard and platform competitions. "That was the peak," says O'Brien...