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...have a margin smaller than five. Wasting little time, Killar took down his first round and quarterfinals opponents, Ben Brenneman of East Stroudsburg and Greg Francesca of University of Virginia, in just 1:59. He also had two major decision victories, a 13-1 defeat of Lehigh's Warren Stout and a 12-0 win over Penn State's Doc Vecchio, before grappling to a first place finish with an 8-3 bout against Carolina's Jamie Groudle...
Freshman Reggie Lee proved no exception to this display of rookie strength as he came in fourth in the 184-lb weight class. Though unable to overcome Cornell's Chris Gafner, Lee secured himself the fourth place position with his 3-1 defeat of Cornell's Randy Stout in the consolation-semis...
...Allison, a stout redhead from Gibson City, Ill. (pop. 3,600), came to be involved with Frankel is revealing of his bizarre proclivities. She had answered his tele-personal ad and flown from Mission Viejo, Calif., to meet Frankel in Greenwich. What she found when she walked into the $3 million mansion was a halfway house of sorts, a community of women gathered from personal ads and Internet chat rooms, all in the employ of this monied recluse who spent his days hunched over trading terminals in the mansion's digitally locked bedroom-cum-offices...
Woven through Cook's narrative runs the private thread (titillating, somehow endearing) of Eleanor's long affair with Lorena Hickok, a stout and mannish journalist. In the past, historians have usually sidestepped the question ("...whether Hick and Eleanor went beyond kisses and hugs...there is absolutely no way we can answer with certainty," wrote Doris Kearns Goodwin in No Ordinary Time). Cook simply takes it for granted that the ardor of their correspondence and their lives together was sapphic. Next case...
...mischievous, charmingly tasteless books of poetry for children (Where the Sidewalk Ends, A Light in the Attic)--a career he never intended, even though he sold 14 million books. His quirky poems featured a cast of rogues ranging from the unruly Dancing Pants to the unsanitary Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout (who "would not take the garbage out"). He also wrote the lyrics to several hits, including Cover of "Rolling Stone" and A Boy Named Sue, and nine plays, often working in conjunction with David Mamet. DIED. MEG GREENFIELD, 68, longtime editor of the Washington Post editorial page and Newsweek columnist...