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...will make campaign stops in California, New York, Illinois and Pennsylvania, four states that Clinton won in 1992 and that Dole, if he is to have any chance at winning the presidency, needs to either win or make Clinton work hard to keep. As he enters his 81-day sprint for the presidency, Dole appears relaxed and ready. At Friday morning's GOP event, Dole's face was absolutely relaxed and if possible even tanner than the night before. Even the backs of his hands were a deep walnut brown. He joked about his Thursday night speech: "I came...
...cent minimum wage increase, passed by week's end, the health care and welfare reforms ensure that this Congress will leave its mark. "We've seen Congress go from gridlock to Olympic gold," Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott told a group of cheering Republicans. Maybe. "Congress is like the sprint cyclists at the Olympics," says TIME's Michael Duffy. "It starts really slowly, and suddenly speeds up for no apparent reason and then just as suddenly, the race is over. Congress hasn't done anything for eighteen months! It has been incredibly unproductive, and is defensive about it, which...
...close but not agonizingly close. We still had to sprint as hard as we could, to focus in and jump hard," Burns said. "I knew I couldn't even spend a fraction of a second looking around and wondering where we were...
...first of her three gold medals, at the Rome Olympics in 1960. She in turn passed the baton to another Tennessee State runner, Wyomia Tyus, who won in both '64 and '68 to become the first runner, man or woman, to win an Olympic sprint twice. African-American women have also won the past three 100s: Evelyn Ashford in '84, the flamboyant Florence Griffith-Joyner in '88 and Gail Devers...
...ever been able to bridge that gap between the last sprint and the first middle-distance race, although one woman, Valerie Brisco-Hooks, did win the 200 and the 400 in the '84 Los Angeles Games. But as the sign in the trainer's room at the track stadium says, PEOPLE WHO SAY IT CANNOT BE DONE SHOULD NOT INTERRUPT THOSE WHO ARE DOING...